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