Zach Barocas, Diasporist Diarist

Boca Negra, 2010.

Heavy Spirits, 1975.
“Wallace Stevens Comes Back to Read His Poems at the 92nd Street Y,” by Mark Strand | The New Yorker
So much for the past. May the worst of it fall by the wayside
Tonight. May other more intricate powers convene.
Rather than subject myself to the endless appetite of endless scrolling, I’ve lately been spending time surfing the web again. This shouldn’t seems like such an archaic path,[footnote]even if the nomenclature demands that the undirected act of clicking through links online appear in italics or quotes.[/footnote] but it sort of feels like one. Heading in several directions, perhaps, with no algorithm to guide me, [footnote]Algorithms, of course, are the drivers of platforms, not the internet.[/footnote] the only guiding force is my own curiosity.

Wildflowers 2: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions, 1977.

Music in Twelve Parts, 1976.

Grand Pianola / Eight Lines, 1984.