Michel Steven Krug
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Of His New Volume Of Poetry, Author Michel Steven Krug Observes Overall, This Book Is A Modern Tower Of Babel Story. Truth Often Has Become A Hologram
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, Seen By Many, An Illusion To Others. In This Collection / Of Exploding Emotions He Plunges The Reader Into The Global Chaos And Hopelessness Suggested By His Title, Surveying Atrocities Both Historical And Contemporary, Lamenting That Little Surprises Us About Depravity Anymore. He Reports Conversing With His Cat To Assuage His Anxieties About The State Of The World, And That's Truly His Intention For This Book As Well. And The Instrument Of That Reassurance Is Jazz, A Musical Form Devoted To Teasing The Harmony Out Of Cacophony, And Collaboration Out Of Individual Expression. It's No Accident That He Opens With An Image Of Coltrane In The Smoldering Light At The Village Vanguard Or That Other Jazz Musicians And Compositions Appear Throughout, For That's The Hope He Has On Offer, Riffing On The Miles Davis Standard So What To Declare, That's The Poetry / That's The So That's The / What.-- Provided By Publisher.
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