Notes

Author: Dean Rader

Publisher: The Economy Press (2025)

In his first book since Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, Dean Rader turns his attention to music. Notes is a collection of poems that listens to fugues, threnodies, and lullabies, as well as Miles Davis, The Velvet Underground, and Prince—beginning with the poem “Creation,” a response to Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off,” which went viral after being featured in The New York Times.