“Music & Literature is indeed a very rare journal, in that it gives equal weight to art in all its forms. The quality is extraordinarily high throughout; every piece in this magazine stands on its own.”
— Nutida Musik (Sweden)
Digital editions of Music & Literature are available through Exact Editions
More than 40 writers, musicians, and translators from around the world gather for Music & Literature’s celebration of Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector, Swiss baroque violinist Maya Homburger and her partner, the British composer-double bassist Barry Guy, and American poet Mary Ruefle. This expansive number opens with an intimate portrait of the Brazilian legend, assembled through premiere folios of Lispector’s letters and paintings, as well as her candid final interview, while new essays by her translators and a host of international writers complete this 100-page tribute to Hurricane Clarice. Meanwhile, the musical galaxies of Maya Homburger and Barry Guy are unveiled through new twin (and entwined) interviews, a selection of Guy’s graphic scores, and a special Bach Pilgrimage Portfolio, to which the legendary conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner lends his voice. Finally, this edition concludes with the first comprehensive appreciation of Mary Ruefle’s entire career to date, with sixteen new poems and erasures by the “contemporary Dickinson” herself. Our most ambitious issue yet, Music & Literature no. 4 is a collection that, in its cumulative synergy, captures the wild intelligences of four of this century's indispensable artists.
Contents
I. Clarice Lispector
A Letter to Clarice / Tatiana Salem Levy, trans. Ana Fletcher
Remarks on Clarice Lispector / Mary Ruefle
A Reverence / Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The Last Interview / Clarice Lispector, trans. Benjamin Moser
Seven Questions for Paulo Gurgel Valente / Taylor Davis-Van Atta
Six Letters / Clarice Lispector, trans. Ana Fletcher
An Introduction to the Paintings
Seven Paintings / Clarice Lispector
A Few Notes on Clarice the Artist / Carlos Mendes de Sousa, trans. Ana Fletcher
Clarice Lispector’s “New World of Feeling” / Alison Entrekin
An Interview with Idra Novey / Madeleine LaRue
“Soliloquies of the Irrational Dark” / Johnny Lorenz
Translating Water, Translating Água Viva / Stefan Tobler
Pure Sensation / Sarah Gerard
The World’s Continual Breathing: On the First and Last Stories of Clarice Lispector / Andrea Scrima
Lipstick Traces: Clarice Lispector’s Radiant Nothingness / Rachel Kushner
Near to the Heart of Language / Claudia Lage, trans. Ana Fletcher
The Apple in the Dark at Noon / Adam Morris
For Peter Pan and Puer Senex: Lispector’s Children’s Books / Roy Rosenstein
II. Maya Homburger & Barry Guy
A Descriptive Biography of Maya Homburger
A Descriptive Biography of Barry Guy
Dios los cría... / Benjamin Dwyer
Six Graphic Scores / Barry Guy
An Interview with Barry Guy / Declan O’Driscoll
An Interview with Maya Homburger / Declan O’Driscoll
A Synopsis of Time Passing... / Barry Guy
Five Poems / Kerry Hardie
SPUN / Mats Gustafsson
Lighting Out for the Territory: Barry Guy’s Fizzles / Brian Lynch
An Education in Listening / Barra Ó Seaghdha
The Bach Pilgrimage Portfolio / Sir John Eliot Gardiner / Maya Homburger / Valerie Botwright / Hildburg Williams
III. Mary Ruefle
A Mind of Surplus / Rachael Allen
A Conversation with Mary Ruefle / Bradley Harrison
Eight Poems / Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle’s Erasures / Carey Wallace
Eight Erasures / Mary Ruefle
Life through Every Conceivable Hour / Timothy Kercher
Someday I’ll Be Dead / Rachel Hurn
There Is No What Happened / Michael Klein
In the Cradle of All There Is / Jason Koo
A Guide in the Mist / Stephen Sparks
Radical Compassion / Bethany W. Pope