Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense is an essay-poem with a soundtrack. The text uses the lullaby to investigate rhythm as innate instinct and drive. The CD that accompanies the text, a collage of found sounds interlaced with a more traditionally composed acoustic guitar instrumentation, is meant to give the reader a more engrossed and nuanced sense of the “event” of the text and of the lullaby itself as an all-encompassing, complex sensory experience.

Christine Hume is the author of Musca Domestica (Beacon 2000) and Alaskaphrenia (New Issues 2004). She teaches at Eastern Michigan University.

Educated in music by the loneliness of the pre-dawn happenstance
electronics, James Marks lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan with his wife
and two children.

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