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    Semitones
    Semitones
    Semitones
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    Semitones

    By Derek Furr

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    Suite for Three Voices is a dance of prose genres, teeming with intense human life in all its humor and sorrow. A son uncovers the horrors of his father’s wartime experience, a hitchhiker in a muumuu guards a mysterious parcel, a young man foresees his brother’s brush with death on September 11. A Victorian poetess encounters space aliens and digital archives, a runner hears the voice of a dead friend in the song of an indigo bunting, a teacher seeks wisdom from his students’ errors and Neil Young. By frozen waterfalls and neglected graveyards, along highways at noon and rivers at dusk, in the sound of bluegrass, Beethoven, and Emily Dickinson, the essays and fiction in this collection offer moments of vision and aspire to the condition of music.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFomite
    Release dateApr 3, 2020
    ISBN9781942515296
    Semitones
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    Derek Furr

    Derek Furr teaches literature and directs the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. He is the author of a collection of fiction and essays, Suite For Three Voices (Fomite 2012), and a work of literary criticism, Recorded Poetry and Poetic Reception From Edna Millay to the Circle of Robert Lowell (Palgrave MacMillan 2010). He grew up in rural North Carolina and now lives in the Hudson Valley with his family.

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