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The Sforzando Letters (a selection)
The Sforzando Letters (a selection)

I write, as Roethke says, "to solve all the leaps of light." I write to do with letters what Thelonious Monk did with piano keys.

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Music, SelectionsTopaz Winterslove letters, Blonde Redhead, Michelle Gurevich, Warpaint, Broadcast, Bomba y Plena, Muddy Waters, Elvis, The Reverend Al Green, W.C. Handy, The Bar-Kays, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, Theodore Roethke, William Faulkner, Shakira, John Coltrane, U2, Johann Sebastian Bach, Son de Mar, Fall Out Boy, Florence + the Machine, Elton John, Byron Janis, Big Thief, Sylvan Esso, Lucinda Williams, The Mountain Goats
"When music comes to you as pure catharsis, it’s very dark, very beautiful." (An Interview With Taylor Robert Hawkins of Western Daughter)
"When music comes to you as pure catharsis, it’s very dark, very beautiful." (An Interview With Taylor Robert Hawkins of Western Daughter)

Music can reveal itself as simply escapism or enjoyment, but it can also be something much deeper, more abstract and substantial.

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Music, InterviewsKate WilsonTaylor Robert Hawkins, Western Daughter, mewithoutYou, Joyce Manor, American Football, Big Thief, Hop Along, The Sidekicks, The Menzingers, The Book, Songs Ohia, Yo La Tengo, Animal Collective, Fugazi, The Spirit of The Beehive, Frank Ocean