Product Description Gathering together shards of autobiography, poetry, and critical commentary on music and writing, Sheets of Sound evokes DeWald's experiences as a musician and poet, father and teacher, movie-lover and teenage skater. This debut collection of essays-by turns lyric and philosophic-reflects on jazz improvisation, poetic constraints, writing pedagogy, and the "queer art of failure" (Jack Halberstam), offering fresh perspectives on artists as various as Ellen Douglas, Nicole Mitchell, and Tomoka Shibasaki. About the Author JAYDN DEWALD is the author of The Rosebud Variations (Broken Sleep Books, 2021) and Sheets of Sound (BSB, 2020). He is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Piedmont University in Demorest, Georgia, USA.

Sheets of Sound: Notes on Music & Writing

Literature & Fiction

Dewald, Jaydn

History & Criticism

Broken Sleep Books

In this debut collection of poetry and prose, Jaydn DeWald explores the relationships between individuality and community, queerness and the bourgeois nuclear family, genre expectations and a postmodern awareness, even distrust, of literary production. Can the imagination forge intimacy, love? Impact history? Or do imaginers merely exile themselves from the world? In a series of obsessive poetic sequences, the speaker-narrators of The Rosebud Variations variously pit themselves against giants of Western art and the heteronormative desires/values that all too often underpin them.

The Rosebud Variations

Poetry

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Sheets of Sound: Notes on Music & Writing

The Rosebud Variations