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...brother. In addition to pieces of Catullus’ poem and Carson’s own writing, Carson has included reproductions of postcards and letters from her brother and mother, photographs of her family, and her own abstract sketches. The pages are designed to fold out in accordion style, so that in theory it is possible to view Carson’s entire book as one long page...
...decision to design the book in such an unusual fashion is questionable; the accordion-like pages are more difficult to handle than the leaves of a traditional book, and the hefty box that contains them is far more unwieldy than an average hardcover tome. An edition of “Nox” in which the poems, translations, letters, and photographs appeared as regular pages would be equally effective in recreating the poet’s attempt to understand her own grief...
...mood of anxiety and fear in the play. Instead of actual books depicting Katurian’s stories, a stack of blank white sheets with cutout silhouettes of children represent the writer’s haunting tales. A note scrawled in blood is bundled as a tightly-wound accordion, so that the words on the folio explode as a red streak when the note is unfurled...
...these factors together, and reality TV's endless stream of candidates seems inevitable. Every winter, American Idol's audition rounds attract a deluge of self-created characters, who have the formula for getting on national TV down to a science. "I'm the crazy accordion lady/ This is my song," yowls a blue-haired young woman cradling a squeeze-box. The advanced descendants of the costumed screwballs who tried to get Monty Hall's attention on Let's Make a Deal, today's reality performance artists put on virtual costumes - the Bitch, the Horndog, the Drama Queen - to get noticed...
Zydeco (Creole/French): music of southern Louisiana involving the blues, French dance melodies, and elements of Caribbean music, featuring guitar, accordion, and a washboard