A History of Western Music - August Kleinzahler

In a career-spanning selection of poems, August Kleinzahler captures the essence of the West’s greatest music. In A History of Western Music, August Kleinzahler’s rhythmic, wry, kinetic style captures the ineffable power and beauty of great songs and artists, as well as the potency of our response to them. In this collection, music is inextricable from life, from landscape, and from the people we remember through it. The poet inhabits the minds and milieus of musicians; he hears arpeggios in... Zobrazit více