Ocean Suite is a new book of twenty-six poems that delves into the connections between sound, music and the language we use to understand our own baffling existence. Starting with the most elemental "voices" of nature-the crash of waves on the shore, bird calls, the wind in the reeds - Ocean Suite listens closely, teasing a lively, playful music out of sound, trying to make out what the world is telling us. It's an exercise in listening. But it's also a search for meaning, and it leads, ultimately, to a kind of profound and oceanic peace, beyond sounds, beyond language, beyond even silence itself.
Ocean Suite is a new book of twenty-six poems that delves into the connections between sound, music and the language we use to understand our own baffling existence. Starting with the most elemental "voices" of nature-the crash of waves on the shore, bird calls, the wind in the reeds - Ocean Suite listens closely, teasing a lively, playful music out of sound, trying to make out what the world is telling us. It's an exercise in listening. But it's also a search for meaning, and it leads, ultimately, to a kind of profound and oceanic peace, beyond sounds, beyond language, beyond even silence itself.
