Celebrating the Alphabet: The Avant-Garde Musical Theater Libretto

Cover Image: From the painting “An Ampersand’s Nest” by Fernando Campos (acrylic on canvas, 30 x 48 inches) // Improvisation; experimental voice; contemporary aesthetics; semiotics in practice; bold artistic discovery; playful creation; innovative expression; whimsical performance // Fernando Campos is the Acquisitions Coordinator for the University of Virginia Press. As an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, he served as an associate editor for Berkeley Fiction Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, and The Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal at UC Berkeley (CLUJ). He also served as a Senior Advisor for CLUJ. He completed a senior thesis on ekphrastic poetry and graduated with honors in the UC Berkeley English Department.