{"product_id":"04-05-2021-the-disintegration-loops-by-stephen-cramer","title":"Cramer, Stephen: The Disintegration Loops","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eServing House Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: February 26, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher Marketing: In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Disintegration Loops\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eStephen Cramer attempts to uncover the music within the world's dissolution and fragmentation, from Italian masters painting over the work of previous artists, to the innocence of childhood giving way to scars, to the description of badly stored tapes being looped and played over and over again until they begin to flake. In the last of the three, silence eats the music from the inside so that by the final loop, the listener hears not the soaring themes of the beginning, but an homage to loss and stillness. The book insists that music, and maybe even life itself, is made more dazzling and precious because it \"falters\/ \u0026amp; staggers\/ forward. The broken\/ melody limps \u0026amp; surges on.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39249601331223,"sku":"9781947175495","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/sc_4d2c7275-ee59-4325-a13d-1120da2506e5.gif?v=1614453732","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/04-05-2021-the-disintegration-loops-by-stephen-cramer","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}