ANALYTICAL WRITING

"'I Could Sing Myself to Death': An Analysis of Schumann's Dicterliebe, Op. 48, X: 'Hör Ich das Liedchen Klingen'" (PDF)

"Consistent Instability in Beethoven's Sonata-Rondo Form: A Structural Analysis of Op. 106 ('Hammerklavier'), IV" (PDF)

"The Canvas and the Paint: J.S. Bach's Fugue in C Minor, BWV 871 (From The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II) (PDF)

Worlds Within Worlds: Recursive Structures in Natural Science, Cognition and Linguistics, and Their Relationship to Music Creation and Perception, Chapter 5: "Recursive Pitch Structures" (PDF)

"The Searching Questions of 'What? - and Why?': Charles Ives' Symphony No. 4" (PDF)

CRITICISM

“Book Review: Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work, by Timothy Hampton.” Notes, Volume 78, Number 3, March 2022, pp. 405-408 (PDF)

“Book Review: Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures, by Laura Emmery (ed.).” Notes, Volume 80, Number 1, September 2023, pp. 159-162 (PDF)

“Book Review: The Philosophy of Modern Song, by Bob Dylan.”  Notes, Volume 80, Number 2, December 2023, pp. 334-337 (PDF)

SELECTED POETRY

7:59 (PDF)

As the Rock Sits in the River (PDF)

Before I Die (PDF)

The Boy Stood Restless (PDF)

Combing Your Hair (PDF)

First the Little Squeak (PDF)

Growing Older (PDF)

I’m Halfway (PDF)

In a Chain Link Lair (PDF)

In a Doll (PDF)

In a Small and Quiet Bar (PDF)

I Passed Into Dreams (PDF)

It Was At a Sunday Market (PDF)

It Once Was Thought (PDF)

Marcus Crassus (PDF)

Most Things Make More Sense From Far Away (PDF)

Nothing Persists Forever (PDF)

One Second Ago (PDF)

The Tap and the Showerhead (PDF)

The World Shrinks (PDF)

There Is a Thing That Happens (PDF)

Thoughts (PDF)

Towards the End (PDF)

A Woman on the Corner (PDF)

When it is Sunday (PDF)

Where Do Pigeons Go To Die (PDF)

With Every Blossoming (PDF) 

FICTION

Clark (PDF)

Short fiction, 2013-14.  

Paper Lyons (PDF)

Novel, 2007-2009.