Publisher's Synopsis
"The notion of the notational-We find ourselves asking, what exactly is a note? As these voice notes suggest, it's a beginning-and here, an endless series of endless beginnings that we can almost hear singing. These notes record whatever 'leaps to mind,' with the leap foregrounded, even choreographed in after-thought, graphically scored across the page. And yet the voice remains, almost but not quite captured; its transcription, while vivid, also records all that we miss when a voice gets arrested by writing. It all amounts to a marvelous contemplation of presence and absence and the crucial role of the voice in both"--