{"product_id":"music-at-the-heart-of-fred-wah-9781772012620","title":"Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations 1-170","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe music of thinking. The thinking of music. \u003ci\u003eMusic at the Heart of Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e 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 bump beyond the end of the word into focus. As a response to readings in contemporary texts, art, and ideas. \u003ci\u003eMusic at the Heart of Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e relocates critical language and thinking to the poetic bavardage at the heart of such endeavours. The poetics that generates these texts arises out of a lifelong poem project that has its roots in the long poem genre of the '80s and its interest in the resistance to closure and the containment of meaning characteristic of the lyric. This book continues the work of two previous out-of-print publications, \u003ci\u003eMusic at the Heart of Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) and \u003ci\u003eAlley, Alley Home Free\u003c\/i\u003e (1990). The poems are generated as textual responses in the reading, looking, and listening of the poet's attention to his cultural milieu. Thus the writing addresses contemporary texts and art over the past forty years. Within this poetry of estrangement lie possible coherences for some sense of writing as a notation for thinking as feeling. The difficulty of this writing is literal and intentional, wary of any attempt to make thinking simple, easy, or predictable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fred Wah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1772012629\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781772012620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Fred Wah","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987500957951,"sku":"9781772012620","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d443cd2a-6cf0-4448-b760-a236921df443.jpg?v=1683289359","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/music-at-the-heart-of-fred-wah-9781772012620","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}