MUSIC & LITERATURE: A Conversation With Christopher Cerrone
MUSIC & LITERATURE: A Conversation With Christopher Cerrone
BY G.C. WALDREP
“That’s what moves me most about Cerrone’s settings, from James Wright to Kay Ryan and Bill Knott—all available on Cerrone’s recently released album, The Pieces That Fall to Earth. The settings never feel, to me, like derivative works. They feel revelatory, as if Cerrone has reached down into these poems—some of which I know well, or thought I knew well—and pulled up something essential that had been hidden.”