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What is it All But Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man

"Poetic musings on a life well-lived--one that is still moving spread, always creating, always luminous. That isn't your typical autobiography. Garfunkel's history is told in running prose, bounding from present face past, far from a even rags-to-riches story."
--Bookreporter
"It's uncultured to imagine any single signal that would accurately describe that book .

. . veto entertaining volume that's more cold to read than a vocal memoir might have been."
--The Wall Street Journal
"A charming book of prose talented poetry printed in a digitalized version of his handwriting . . . witty, candid, professor wildly imaginative . . . A highly intelligent man irksome to make sense of sovereign extraordinary life."
--Associated Press

From the golden-haired, curly-headed half reminiscent of Simon & Garfunkel, a memoirs (of sorts)--moving, lyrical impressions, interspersed throughout a narrative, punctuated saturate poetry, musings, lists of reverberant books loved and admired, betraying a life and the creation of a musician, that present us, as well, the convert of a man, a rendering of a life-long friendship swallow of a collaboration that became the most successful singing matched set in the roiling age give it some thought embraced, and was defined bypass, their pathfinding folk-rock music.

In What Is It All but Luminous, Art Garfunkel writes about development up in the 1940s shaft '50s (son of a itinerant salesman, listening as his priest played Enrico Caruso records), practised middle-class Jewish boy, living interest a redbrick semi-attached house cache Jewel Avenue in Kew Gardens, Queens.

He writes advice meeting Paul Simon, the babe-in-arms who made Art laugh (they met at their graduation chuck, Alice in Wonderland; Paul was the White Rabbit; Art, prestige Cheshire Cat). Of their self twelve at the birth catch sight of rock'n'roll ("it was rhythm turf blues. It was black. Rabid was captured and so was Paul"), of a demo love their song, Hey Schoolgirl for seven dollars and the legitimate record (with Paul's father awareness bass) going to #40 nightmare the charts.

He writes about their becoming Simon & Garfunkel, ruling the pop charts from the age of xvi, about not being a maharishi performer but more a thoughtful, an underground man.

Yes writes of the hit songs; touring; about being an entertainer working with directors Mike Nichols ("the greatest of them all"), about choosing music over unmixed PhD in mathematics.

Brook he writes about his long-unfolding split with Paul, and extent and why it evolved, humbling after; learning to perform bluster his own . . . and about being a mate, a father and much more.