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...Monk and Miles Davis. The idea behind the jazz was spontaneous improvisation and long breath. That had an influence on the line in "Howl" and any other long-line poems I've done. Thelonius Monk's idea of thinking then silence, thinking then silence affected "Kaddish." It would go: clonk, clonk...clonkcklonkcklonk. The big silences in Monk's work are equivalent to the dashes that I use for short breath "thinks" inside the verse line, separated by dashes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ginsberg on the Beat | 2/7/1985 | See Source »

...sympathetic audience, a French-horn player is often the object of grave solicitude. Even the best of them sometimes lip up confidently for a Wagnerian horn call only to burble or clonk out a sound like a moose cough. One man who rarely burbles or clonks on the most unpredictable of orchestra instruments is England's Dennis Brain. At 32, Brain (no kin to Winston Churchill's physician -see FOREIGN NEWS) is Britain's best horn player, and last week he showed off his skill in one of the rare pieces written for horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Young Man with a Horn | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...Manhattan's League for Less Noise sighted on a new target: the loose manhole covers that go clonk-clonk when cars pass over them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...long time the 118 pounds of humanity calculated the distance. He took out a midiron?no, that would not do. A driving iron? Yes, certainly. No, perhaps not. A midiron. Why, yes. Clonk. "It's right at the pin!" shrieked Doyle, Lake Champion pro. And so it was. The little man scored a birdie three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Open Golf | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

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