Home of the Brave

Well, it's actually, Difficult Music is a phrase in one of the poems in the third part of the book where I talk about liking difficult music.

And it is true some of the music I find most attractive is, uh, quote Laurie Anderson, "difficult listening." [laughs] Um, I think her bit from Home of the Brave on that topic may have been at the back of my head a little.

But it is, uh, it is difficult, I have found, for some readers, well, quite a few readers, to get into, um, because it is so heavily structured and because it does not follow a single narrative line.

It kind of fractures itself, again, especially in the third section in the symphony.

You know what I mean? Because you had the vinyl.

I have one that I recently pulled out of my archive of Laurie Anderson, her breaking down the Home of the Brave album.

It's like incredible.

So many samples on it, right? So that's where my fascination came from, was from the I Have a Dream speech vinyl and having that physical...