Beauty, Burning: The Condition of Music

Daniela Cascella

forthcoming 14 May

In the condition of music, beauty is not beautiful. It has the necessary instability of a flickering and the urgency of a burning in some terrible wind-tortured place, perhaps a garden. Writing here appears in a state of ardent desire and desire is a way of knowing which summons and burns. Entangled with other voices and atmospheres, it does not hold them in descriptions as words continue to flee, each of them an ever-transforming psychic bundle. Form is an arrangement in flux, each quotation a cicada, rubbing, buzzing, repeating, until ad nauseam becomes ad noiseam, relentless repeated buzz which is unsong, which is music.

Where does this word, music, heard in reading, begin and end, beauty? Where does this word, unsong, begin and end, beauty?

Beauty, burning is.

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ISBN 978-1-916541-29-0