Reading playlist What Moves the Deaf
Listening so hard the silence becomes a kind of sound.
Artists and music for this book
Morton Feldman
Arvo Pärt
Lior Ben-Hur
Why this music
Because the book attends to absence — to what the body cannot receive — the music stays sparse and unhurried, with long pauses between notes. Piano and chamber strings carry the weight, brightening only briefly before retreating. As the poems move deeper into the body's interior, the sound grows quieter still.