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(Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2)
Craig Cotter

There’s hiss
on my new Moonlight Sonata CD

Claudio Arrau
’s breathing.

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Craig Cotter was born in 1960 in New York and has lived in Los Angeles since 1986. His poems have appeared in hundreds of journals in the U.S. France, Italy, Czech Republic, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, India, and Ireland. His fourth book of poems is After Lunch with Frank O’Hara.

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