-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I expected poet-essayist Garrett Hongo’s “The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo [https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B093YTQR8Z&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_JXYY6VN7NWAK89TX3KEC&tag=thewaspos09-20] ” to recount the author’s obsession with finding and building the ideal listening equipment. But it turns out you don’t

Poetry from a variety of sites, including Poetry Foundation, poets.org, terrain.org, Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. Here are also voice recordings and a collection of essay tributes from former students Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Major Jackson, Michelle Peñaloza, and Jeffrey Schultz presented at AWP in 2019. “On Emptiness”“If only I could stand the infinite measures,

From here in my stereo room, in my day basement ten steps down from my entry hallway, much can seem perfect if I close my eyes and just listen. I’ve all my gear arranged in front of me, across the immaculate, midnight-blue Chinese carpet and against the acoustic-paneled wall opposite where I sit in my leather club chair—an

Garrett, your new book The Perfect Sound: An Autobiography in Stereo is poised to come out as we conduct this interview, but I’ve been privileged to watch it grow for the past several years—from its initial impulse, which as I recall was going to be a lyrical history of the vacuum tube, to its final form, a much