Listening Voices

Listening Voices Is A Set Of Meticulously Crafted Poems That Transform A Deep Study Of Music Into Shapes And Sounds And Spaces That Tickle The Readers Ear And Eye And Mind. From The Opening Section, Carroway Seeds-an Engagement With Conlon Nancarrows Studies For Player Piano-through The Long Elegiac Final Section, Listening Voices-written In Memoriam For Nobles Childhood Friend, The Guitarist Ray Ernst-these Are Cerebral And Cunning Poems, That Shape Shift In Ways That Suggest Both Concrete Poetry And Musical Scores. In These Dazzling Compositions, Poems Dwell Inside Poems And Readinglistening Happens Along Many Simultaneous Lines.