"In Charles North's sublime Cadenza, desirables abound - not only beauty, mystery, and wit (as well as humor - oh my!), but knowledge and passion, overtly chaste but no less intense for that. A dazzling profusion of simultaneous passions: he is the master of multitasking - all experience open to him at every moment - as well as a master tout court. He belongs on the summit of our American Parnassus." -Harry Mathews

"Charles North has the wry, sparkling wit of a poet who has been around the aesthetic block more than a few times but keeps the trips as fresh as a new morning in an old town. In Cadenza, he moves in, around, and about everyday life with an improvisatory élan that soon becomes an almost familiar tune, sung to the friend you become every time you lend an ear. The direction is true North; the vintage just right." -Charles Bernstein...