101-words

Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields writing a book of Scrabble-based poetry

IMAGEIMAGE

Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes, Gothic Archies and other projects certainly has a way with words. He’ll be using that talent for a book of poetry titled 101 Two-Letter Words. Illustrated by Roz Chast, the book consists of four-line poems based on the 101 two-letter words accepted in Scrabble. Here’s “Yo”:

The country folk say “howdy-do”
but here in town, it’s “yo”;
they’ll say it in the country too
in twenty years or so.

101 Two-Letter Words will be published by W.W. Norton in October.

In other news, Magnetic Fields satellite members Sam Davol and Claudia Gonson performed with Tanya Donelly in NYC over the weekend.