Posts tagged Johann Sebastian Bach
“It’s the dancer’s leap on the downbeat that gives the illusion of flight.” (Will Cordeiro on Presto)
“It’s the dancer’s leap on the downbeat that gives the illusion of flight.” (Will Cordeiro on Presto)

Bang, the universe began—and ended. A cosmos is reduced to an epigram. Narrative allows us to dash through eternity as quick as a quantum leap.

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Literature, Music, History, FilmGuestR. S. Thomas, Will Cordeiro, David Foster Wallace, Italo Calvino, David Hume, Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Niccolò Paganini, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Paul Wittgenstein, Ted Hearne, Johannes Moser, Johann Strauss, Henri Bergson, Horace Walpole, Willa Cather, Terrance Malick, John Gay, Kenneth Koch, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Samuel Butler, Christopher Okigbo, Jay Wright, Douglas Kearney, Wayne Koestenbaum, Thomas De Quincey, James Agee, John Barthes, William H. Gass, John Lyly, Thomas Browne, Virginia Woolf, Will Self, José Lezama Lema, Severo Sarduy, Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The Sforzando Letters (a selection)
The Sforzando Letters (a selection)

I write, as Roethke says, "to solve all the leaps of light." I write to do with letters what Thelonious Monk did with piano keys.

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