More Four!: Four Beats, Four Lines, Four Stanzas

Book overview MORE FOUR! is a celebration of metric music and rhythmic wordsongLike my sister and our late parents, I’m left--handed.

Four are the beats of a march.

I love to imagine somebody inventing the rhythm LEFT right, LEFT right.

A left- handed violinist and vocalist, I’M fond of march music: ONE two, THREE four! The human heartbeat.

And yet there are highly diversified “tunes” you can play with a four-beat line, as I’ll show you.

Inspired by mentors from Gustav Mahler to Gertrude Stein, by 79 years of living and listening, I’ll make my four- beat rhythms do things you never heard before in this festival of original poems! Read more