Plangent

It was Chiznu-Prut's "Vortex/Morning Breath" that heralded the dawn of a new day for Freedonian poetry in the inaugural issue of Plangent Breadsticks, an influential quarterly review:

Vieru Chiznu-Prut, Freedonian New Wave Poet, Dead at 84 Con Chapman 2010

Plangent brass, representing Fate, dominates this angst-ridden symphony, but the strings, particularly their brilliantly executed pizzicato ostinato in the scherzo, the woodwinds, especially the flute, and the martial percussion sections all revelled in their opportunities to shine.

unknown title 2009

Plangent: Standby rock-crit adjective used to lend a magical aura to any nonaggressive guitar-based music (even though the word's primary meaning is "loud and resounding").

I Will Dare 2009

They’re an insouciant bunch, trailing names in the Henry James vein (Lucinda Hoekke, Matthew Plangent, Rhodes Bramlett, Fancher Autumnbreast), and I’d swear that the opening scene, in which Lucinda and Matthew meet in the neutral space of a museum lobby to break up for the umpteenth time, cribs from James’s story “Julia Bride.”

Lethem Heads West, Takes It Easy 2007

They’re an insouciant bunch, trailing names in the Henry James vein (Lucinda Hoekke, Matthew Plangent, Rhodes Bramlett, Fancher Autumnbreast), and I’d swear that the opening scene, in which Lucinda and Matthew meet in the neutral space of a museum lobby to break up for the umpteenth time, cribs from James’s story “Julia Bride.”

Lethem Heads West, Takes It Easy 2007

They’re an insouciant bunch, trailing names in the Henry James vein (Lucinda Hoekke, Matthew Plangent, Rhodes Bramlett, Fancher Autumnbreast), and I’d swear that the opening scene, in which Lucinda and Matthew meet in the neutral space of a museum lobby to break up for the umpteenth time, cribs from James’s story “Julia Bride.”

Lethem Heads West, Takes It Easy 2007