The great Englishpoet William Wordsworth once characterizedthe author as “a man talking to men”. In KC Wilder’s uniquely fleeting, fauxbrow universe, conventional worldviews and ideas are less important.
KC Wilder’s art is often unnerved and unnerving, centered on a loss of centrality itself, as witnessed in this passage from “#45: doggedly resolved”: chewing himself out, in a tailspin everyday … doting on a well-worn bag of bones inside a doghouse! sitting up on slipshod grates contemplating dog-eared rage, the many treats he’s been denied …
Wilder has taught writing at the state university of New York. He studied the craft of imagineering poetry from the Pulitzer prize winner Louis Simpson and studied singing and songwriting for many years from a colleague of Sir Laurence Olivier, the venerable Homeric bard Richard Dyer-Bennet.
KC Wilder’s talents and ventures in (and out of) cultural pursuits of all kinds span a wide area – writer, handicrafter, musician, web coder, video artist, first amendment activist, photographer, naturalist, and a one-time U.S. AAU-national champion athlete. He has performed to tens of thousands with a 40-piece classical ensemble as a baritone soloist, and has toured widely throughout America as a minstrel , guitarist and perfomer. In the 90s he was celebrated and known in the publishing and mail art worlds for editing and publishing a different sort of music zine as well as many literary mags, including several indy award-winners.
Light, funny and jaunty, but also wry and true. Wilder’s art rock travels and conveys the spectator with it. Some have recognized a trace of The Door’s singer J. Morrison in KC Wilder’s vocal stylings. If you could isolate the freewheeling nature of Ansel Adams and shake it up in a chaser with 1961-Greenwich-Village-era Dylan, you might reach the same overall feel. A consequential dose of Ken Nordine and possibly Fred Fellini.
Wilder offersan indy disc of humorous poetry on bewilderama records. A rocker as well as man of letters, Wilder picks guitar on some of these anthems in addition to reciting humorous poetry in cahoots with the amazing Acme Rocket Quartet. Free clips are easily available from www.bewilderama.com and www.frankmedia.com.
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