7×5 (Uncut)

(Lead Single) Released October 18, 2016

(Second Single) Released November 22, 2016

(Third Single) Released December 27, 2016

(Fourth Single) Released January 31, 2017

(Fifth Single) Released March 7, 2017

(Double Album) Back Cover (CD)

7×5 (Uncut)

(Spoken Word Album.) Not only can poets be big dicks, but they often have them, too. For the self-proclaimed “Provocateur-Poet,” Jono Borden unabashedly unzips and whips out of his flagrant mind an incendiary double album of recent works he utters like unapologetic confessions. His deep drawl lays lyrics lasciviously at the feet of any and every one tempted to receive what he has to say.

Finding an audience has never been hard for Borden, whose bibliography already exposes his defiant versatility, whether waxing decadent in his debut book, Simple Simony, or clashing cultures and conquering taboos in Isaac & Iskandar. Always one to blur the line between “high” and “low” art, Jono’s aural jaunt is a concoction listeners can swallow in two portions which mirror that dichotomy—the first part of 7×5 (Uncut) distills Borden’s fantasies and conquests without filter, while its chaser opines on the pains of literary life.

Part I – Lust

Down the Barrel
7×5 (Uncut)
Out of Time into Eternity
War of the Words
Argonaughtyca
Prussian Blues
Chicago in May
Head over Heils
Buried in the Most Perfect Oblivion
Cloudburst
Intermission
A Heart That Is Distant Creates a Wilderness around It
Blind Men Tracing the Circle
Dancing like Hieroglyphics, the Truth at Twenty-One Is Enough to Subdue Some with Its Metaphysics
L’Homme 100 têtes (homme sans tête)
Pasteural
To the Beloved in a Bathhouse
Kisses like Little Fists

Part II – Literature

Bringing Volcanoes to the Hills
On Shoulders like Ours (The Burden of Poets)
No Star Wears a Veil
The Return of Miss Hypatia Leigh
Silent Alarm
Volumes of Echoes
When the Soul’s Been Widowed
A Prisoner under Every Regime
Hearts of Iron, Tears of Ink
To Add a Story to the Tower of Babel
The Weapon of Art
In Bed at the Adlon
Beneath the Eyes and Ears of the World
Eternal Spirit of the Chainless Mind
Forced Sorcery/Pay the Sage
The Eve of Red Tuesday
Back on the Horse

“His chutzpah is bracing, brazen. [He has what] one finds in Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, and the words of other great, rock songsmiths. Dude’s got guts!”
—George Elliott Clarke, Poet Laureate of Canada

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Halifax: Jono Borden | First Pressing (October 18, 2016)
Rights Territory: Worldwide

CIPO Registration 1155175

☞ Subjects (LCSH):

☞ Form/Genre (LCGFT):

Musical settings | Studio recordings | Poetry readings (Sound recordings) | Spoken word poetry

☞ Subjects (BISAC):

POE021000 POETRY / LGBT | POE023020 POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica | POE011000 POETRY / Canadian

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☞ Classification (LCC):

M1679.18.B67 S48 2016

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