A scattered orphan

                       philandering

          in    a             sea

                                                of identical twins….

…So Jeff Alessandrelli invites us into the world of Erik Satie, 19th and 20th Century French avant-garde composer. In poems and imagined lyrics to sheet music, Alessandrelli fractures the idea of Satie–a man as eccentric and intriguing in his life as his music was and remains–into strange yet comforting poems as fine and engaging as “air visible in a room;” this is work that will delight as does the music that inspired them and which haunts us still. As Mathias Svalina said for the copy text, ” “This is a stunning & challenging book about what it means to love stunning & challenging music.”

Man is as much made to dream as I am to have a wooden leg.
—Erik Satie