Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations 1-170

by Fred Wah

Book Overview

The music of thinking. The thinking of music. Music at the Heart of Thinking is a poetry that works through language as the true practice of thought and improvisation as the tool that listens to and notates thinking. From jazz, the unpredictable ad lib driving itself from itself. From a drunken Shaolin monk, the poem as imbalanced tai chi. From Keats's negative capability, the half-closed eye, the estrangement of language. All intended to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772012629
• ISBN13: 9781772012620
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"