So when I reference Boethius it’s not because I’ve deeply read him, but because I came across a quotation in passing; it struck me as something to reflect on. Some of them turn into poems, some of them don’t.
Alex Ross’s The Rest Is Noise (2007) concludes its history of 20th-century classical music with the observation that the divisions between classical, popular, traditional, and pastiche musical forms are breaking down
Karen Solie’s new collection, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out (2015) confronts the current historical impasse of society’s pervasive reduction of being, culture, and nature to austerity, alienation, and degradation.