ARGONAUT BOOKS

A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the seaBRIAN ENONow that so many things can be - and are - recorded, I had forgotten that sound could also become extinct. The massive melancholic sound of the foghorn - the sound of safety and loss - is one of these and this colorful and detailed requiem tells the many interlocking stories of people who love it and try to preserve it. This has become one of my favorite booksLAURIE ANDERSONThe Foghorn's Lament is as memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests. It's a de...Read More