Indeed, Gimpel has kept himself aloof from current poetic trends and fashions, preferring a more classical rigor of form. His poems characteristically combine a rich contemporary diction with a complex rhetoric of logic, metaphor and allegory. Thus, in the Carnevalis , I worked with various themes, developing, interweaving and combining them in the manner of a musical composition. Hofstadter was looking for subliminal ways to convey some very complex logico-mathematical concepts to a lay audience. The fact is, words were never enough for me.
Music is more powerful.
Its impact on the listener is stronger, its effect more profound and enduring. Further, as Hesse understood very well, the musical paradigm offers a matrix for all future forms of artistic expression. This is in part because music has this 'self-revealing' power, the mysterious ability to educate the listener to an understanding of its contents. In The Carnevalis of Eusebius Asch, I have tried to answer that call. I hope that with the new millenium other writers will, too.