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Literature & Fiction

Wyatt, Charles

Poetry

Ex Ophidia Press

Listening to Mozart (Iowa Short Fiction Award)

United States

University Of Iowa Press

Walter Pater's famous maxim that all art aspires to the condition of music is given rapturous embodiment in Charles Wyatt s Goldberg-Variations. Ekphrastic poetry might be enjoying a surprising renaissance, but Wyatt is the inheritor of an even rarer practice, call it auresis, or aural mimesis, that is poetry which imitates the pitch, rhythm and dynamics of music. Listen closely, for enthralling the ear and stimulating the mind, Goldberg-Variations is a major concerto of a book, demonstrating the proximity of our art forms and the sheer universe of delight they can provoke within us. --Ravi Shankar, 2014 contest judge

Goldberg―Variations (The Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series, 18)

Carolina Wren Press

Colp: Big

Smith, Brendan

Turnbull, David

Hand, Jill

Talon, David

Petyo, Robert

Gypsum Sound Tales

Cady, North

Dickzen, Rachael

Greene, Randal Eldon

Short Stories & Anthologies

Independently published

Falling Stones is a compelling tale of the quest for spiritual meaning in early nineteenth-century rural America. Sylvester Marion Jones, born in 1836, inhabits a guilt-laden Protestant domain, saturated with ominous signs and wonders. His childhood is marked first by demonic visions and later by his young brother’s mysterious disappearance, for which his father blames him. Grown up, Sylvester is drawn into marriage with a young woman suspected of witchcraft. Still a seeker of light, he finally achieves the purgation of his house—at the savage cost of acknowledging the demon in himself.

Falling Stones: The Spirit Autobiography of S. M. Jones

Literary

Texas Review Press

Fiction. This collection of stories revolving around the world of classical music is the second collection of short stories from this well-known flutist and award-winning writer. Charles Wyatt was principal flutist for the Nashville Symphony for 25 years. Along the way, he also began writing poems and stories, frequently utilizing his musical background in the process. He earned an MFA degree at Warren Wilson College and published a novel and a short story collection to great acclaim. He has taught writing and literature at, among others, Oberlin College, Purdue University, and Denison University. Nashville remains his home between teaching assignments. "Now we play Hindemith. Mathis der maler. The orchestration is inspired, leaving a sing flute note to fill the hall after a tumultuous passage. I wonder at it. A single note. But the hall filled with it. We must all breathe it in, swim through it. It is a chilling, invisible thing."

Swan of Tuonela

Hanging Loose Press

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