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Entries from April 2022

Gegenschein

April 24th, 2022 · Comments Off on Gegenschein

A quiet sonic glimmer for glockenspiel or vibraphone and piano, dodecaphonic but not exactly serial.

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Index Cards (105)

April 21st, 2022 · Comments Off on Index Cards (105)

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The Somethingization of Something

April 13th, 2022 · Comments Off on The Somethingization of Something

This sad little tale can be found in The Snowman Three Doors Down. The title did, in fact, come from a dream. The constraint (for there is a constraint) is that the text forms an acrostic of the title, and that each sentence contains the number of words corresponding to the initial letter’s place in […]

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The Noble Apothecary

April 6th, 2022 · Comments Off on The Noble Apothecary

The upcoming issue of the Black Scat Review is devoted to “Lewd, Nude, and Rude.” I’m offering my translation of The Noble Apothecary, a 1664 novella by Jean Donneau de Visé. Donneau de Visé is remembered mostly for his polemics against Molière, but he also wrote plays, served as Louis XIV’s historian, and founded an […]

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