Losing is the lugubriousness of Chopin. What’s lost might be a sea shell or a tea cup or the bloody scalp of an Indian; it hardly matters. When you are lost, the heart recedes from exterior currents, too much in sync with itself, its groove vicissitudes. Each encounter, rather than revealing new rhythms, is experienced as a clangorous din, a pounding. The effect of this pounding is to push the heart deeper and deeper into pitiless darkness. The darkness is pitiless because it has no clear ending. The rhythms are pitiless because we do not know how they began. We find pity and it betrays us with a stray fondle. We squirm within ourselves to the sound of the Devil’s opera bufa.
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This expanded edition of Opera Bufa features the original book in its entirety, along with a 2013 preface by author Adam Fieled, and critical work on the book by Stacy Blair and Laura Goldstein.
Laura Goldstein's critical piece on Opera Bufa was published in moria poetry in 2008. Stacy Blair's piece was written as a term paper for a course taught by Laura Goldstein at Loyola U. in Chicago in the summer of 2008 (English 271, How Does This Sound?, Ultramodern Metaphor), where Opera Bufa was taught and Fieled lectured about the book.
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Early Books: Expanded Editions encompasses this book in its entirety.
The critical responses from Blair and Goldstein both grew from Opera Bufa being taught by Goldstein at Loyola University Chicago in 2008 (English 271). Fieled lectured to the class on 6-19-08, as well.
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Early Books by American writer Adam Fieled, collects five texts published between 2007 and 2009 (Posit, Opera Bufa, Beams, When You Bit, Chimes), along with prefaces and critical commentary by poet/critics Stacy Blair, Laura Goldstein, and others. Cover image by Abby Heller-Burnham.
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