“Three Goat Songs”
by Michael Brodsky is a series of variations on a theme. It is divided into three
novellas, each about a man who sits on a rocky coast by the seashore . . .
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This
startling novel (originally published in 1991) is the concentrated peak
of Brodsky’s dynamic and unique vision. With a shifting group of
characters—Mazel Tov Jones, Neddie and Eddie, Vladimir and Mr. and Mrs.
Stein, Brodsky . . .
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Born
in Yugoslavia into an ethnic Romanian family, raised in Serbia, groomed
in the Paris music circle before relocating to New York, if anything,
provide a strong metaphor for Ionel Petroi’s “Musique Relative.” What came first the relative identity or the music? Is this latter the emanation of the former?
“Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean,” by Jonathan White
(Trinity, pp 336, $28.00)
Something
unexpected will happen upon reading the chapters of this captivating
book. Your nostrils will feel the iodine-laden air as the winds break
like waves upon the shores of your...