John Edgar Wideman showed Bayo Ojikutu where the silences are. by Bayo Ojikutu In 1997 John Edgar Wideman wrote an essay for Esquire magazine called "The Silence of Thelonious Monk," about love and poetry and words (all that jazz), the sublime way in which the quiet between a maestro's key strokes elicits the glory of all of the above, and about Paris, too. Wideman penned the work, or at least framed its reflections, around his own sojourn in that hub of western culture and democracy and romance and empire and revolution, Gaul—safe haven for so many black American performers, artists, thinkers, and radicals over the postmodern years.… [ Read more ]
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