"We’re like little carp in stagnant water. This stagnant water, this is just our correspondence. But one day we’ll thrash so much in that water that it will froth up and we’ll fling ourselves over the dam wall!"
—Leos Janacek to Kamila Stosslova, 13 November 1927 (trans. John Tyrrell)
Author of Body & Glass (Wave Books, 2018), Etruria (Wave Books, 2014), Musee Mechanique (BlazeVOX, 2006), and Rouge State (Pavement Saw, 2003). Married Lesley Poirier; lives in Portland, OR.
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I love Janacek to the point of obsession and I love his correspondence with Stosslova!
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