Something Close to Music - by John Ashbery Sound Art Edited by Jeff Khonsary

Edited by Jeff Khonsary

Cage's assistant from 1986 to 1992 and now longtime director of the John Cage Trust

A book without words that is full of delight

Welcomed into Melbourne’s artistic community by members of the infamous ‘Heide Circle’

without any ambition to have a literary or painterly career

Something Close to Music - by John Ashbery Sound Art Edited by Jeff KhonsaryAshberys poetry is frequently described as ekphrastic, though, rather than writing a poem based on or inspired by the content of an artwork or piece of music, he engages with how the experience of seeing it and the artistic strategies employed offer ways of thinking about it and through it. Many observations from Ashberys art writing also provide keys to how we might read his poetry. Many recordings he listened to feature contemporary classical works