At the age of fourteen, during my last year in junior high school in Gardena, I began to realize that if I were ever to get a date I ’d have to revolutionize my musical point of reference. The faux folk music and light pop I ’d once cherished had to be exchanged for something completely different. I was among

Garrett Hongo, a professor of poetry at the University of Oregon, ... has spent the last few decades searching for the perfect hi-fi system. His book “The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo” is itself a stereo recording, with autobiography in one channel and his search for the best sound in the other—a search that involves learning about different kinds

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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,