Events

Pop-Up Torah

On August 23, 2011 Pop-Up Torah, one of several “poetic objects”—works in a variety of media that give literal form to poetry and prose—that Richard Grossman is producing in conjunction with his forthcoming novel, Breeze Avenue, was installed in Mount Princeton, a 14,000 foot-high peak in southern Colorado’s Collegiate Range.

At the heart of the work is the Torah Ball, a 5-inch corundum (synthetic sapphire) sphere incised with the Ten Commandments by master Steuben engraver Max Erlacher. This beautiful orb, almost as hard as diamond, was inserted into a 300 foot-deep shaft close to the summit of the mountain, one of the tallest in the Rockies.

After approximately 20 million years, as a result of natural forces, the Torah Ball will emerge undamaged from the eroded peak and bear the Ten Commandments down the mountain. In the meantime, in order to assure that the work remains undisturbed by human intervention, the precise location of the Pop-Up Torah will not be revealed. Click here to learn more.

The Animals

Released on October 18, 2011, this 400-poem pastoral is the first of 37 books by Richard Grossman that will be published by American Letters Press over the next four years.
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Car-illon System™

This unique musical instrument invented by Grossman, which transforms a fleet of 13 cars into an “automotive marching band,” was featured in the second annual Las Vegas Halloween Parade on Monday, October 31, 2011, and in the San Diego County Veterans Day Parade on Monday, November 11, 2011. The Car-illon System is among several ambitious, genre-breaking projects in art, architecture, music, performance, poetry and prose that the author is creating as part of the culminating work of his American Letters trilogy, Breeze Avenue. Thousands of images of the Car-illon events, recorded by video cameras mounted on and in the cars, will appear within the book. Click here to learn more.