The music lover's poetry anthology / edited by Helen Handley Houghton and Maureen McCarthy Draper.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Persea Books, [2007], ©2007.
Description
xix, 284 pages ; 22 cm

Details

Subject(s)
Notes
"A Karen & Michael Braziller book."
Contents
  • In music / Czeslaw Milosz
  • On hearing a symphony of Beethoven / Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • From Magnificat / Bill Holm
  • Listening / Dick Davis
  • Listening to the Koln concert / Robert Bly
  • The Dumka / B. H. Fairchild
  • Fond memory / Eavan Boland
  • [Blossoms at night] / Issa
  • Sonata / Edward Hirsch
  • Muse / Linda Pastan
  • Earphones / Michael Ryan
  • Elevator music / Henry Taylor
  • Loud music / Stephen Dobyns
  • Sunday morning with the sensational nightingales / Billy Collins
  • Radio / Cornelius Eady
  • Country radio / Daniel Hall
  • The power of music to disturb / Lisel Mueller
  • Music / Charles Baudelaire
  • On hearing a flute at night / Li Yi
  • The eventual music / Liam Rector
  • [Heart, not so heavy as mine] / Emily Dickinson
  • To music, to becalm his fever / Robert Herrick
  • Evening music / May Sarton
  • The victor dog / James Merrill
  • A one-eyed cat named Hathway / Henri Coulette
  • The choir / Galway Kinnell
  • Music / Anne Porter
  • Ask my mother to sing / Li-Young Lee
  • Where the breath is / Adam Zagajewski
  • Songs / Philip Levine
  • From Messiah (Christmas portions) / Mark Doty
  • Joy / Lisel Mueller
  • The singer's house / Seamus Heaney
  • First song / Galway Kinnell
  • [I shall keep singing!] / Emily Dickinson
  • Everyone sang / Siegfried Sassoon
  • The composer / W. H. Auden
  • Regarding (most) songs / Thomas Lux
  • Sonnet / Elizabeth Bishop
  • Singing back the world / Dorianne Laux
  • Music lesson / Jill Bialosky
  • Half note / Susan Kinsolving
  • Tin ear / Peter Schmitt
  • Ooly pop a cow / David Huddle
  • You're the top / Tony Hoagland
  • Blizzard / Bill Holm
  • The rose : 1984 / Carol Muske-Dukes
  • [His song was about the world] / Gregory Orr
  • From The wedding of Ektor and Andromakha / Sappho
  • Where everything is music / Rumi
  • From Playing Haydn for the angel of death / Bill Holm
  • To his piano / Howard Nemerov
  • The ebony chickering / Dorianne Laux
  • Kranich and Bach / John Hollander
  • Piano / D. H. Lawrence
  • Variations for two pianos / Donald Justice
  • Piano practice at the academy of the Holy Angels / Wallace Stevens
  • Piano tuner, Untune me that tone / Ogden Nash
  • The piano tuner / Valerie Gillies
  • Piano lessons / Billy Collins
  • The pupil / Donald Justice
  • Practicing / Linda Pastan
  • The music lesson / Brigit Pegeen Kelly
  • Death of a pianist / Adam Zagajewski
  • Gradus ad Parnassum / Muriel Rukeyser
  • Piano concerto in E flat major / Fleur Adcock
  • Woman at the piano / William Jay Smith
  • The investment / Robert Frost
  • Under the piano / Kenneth Weisner
  • Piano practice / Derek Walcott
  • Instrument of choice / Robert Phillips
  • Recital / John Updike
  • Ginza Samba / Robert Pinsky
  • A Belacqua B flat trumpet / Kenneth Fields
  • English horn / Eugenio Montale
  • The nomad flute / W. S. Merwin
  • Stravinsk's flute / Mina Loy
  • Concertina / Carol Muske-Dukes
  • Musician / Louise Bogan
  • Girl with 'cello / May Sarton
  • The cellist / Galway Kinnell
  • Instructions to the player / Carl Rakosi
  • Beethoven's quartet in C major, opus 59 / Linda Pastan
  • Violin / Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Haydn / Rolf Jacobsen
  • From Ode to the guitar / Pablo Neruda
  • The guitar / Federico Garcia Lorca
  • The twelfth sonnet / Louise Late
  • The stillness of the world before Bach / Lars Gustafsson
  • If bach had been a beekeeper / Charles Tomlinson
  • God only knows / Dana Gioia
  • From Playing the inventions / Howard Nemerov
  • From Vivaldi / Delmore Schwartz
  • Allegro / Tomas Transtromer
  • From J. Haydn to Constance Mozart (1791) / Edgar Bowers
  • Mozart, for example / Mary Oliver
  • His master's voice / Leonard Cohen
  • Lives of the great composers / Dana Gioia
  • Late Beethoven / Adam Zagajewski
  • Heavenly length / Bill Holm
  • Romantics / Lisel Mueller
  • Brahms' Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 / Jan Zwicky
  • From the new world / Grace Schulman
  • On Rachmaninoff's birthday / Frank O'Hara
  • Rachmaninoff's psychiatrist / Diane Ackerman
  • Night piece / J. D. McClatchy
  • Such singing in the wild branches / Mary Oliver
  • Song / Seamus Heaney
  • An orphic calling / Anthony Hecht
  • The breath of nature / Chuang Tzu
  • Orpheus / William Jay Smith
  • [The temple bell stops-] / Basho
  • Sonnet / Christina Georgina Rossetti
  • The blackbird's song / Vasko Popa
  • Benny the beaver / Susan Wheeler
  • All things / Hayden Carruth
  • The darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy
  • About opera / William Meredith
  • From Ode to Anna Moffo / Wayne Koestenbaum
  • To the voice of Kathleen Ferrier / Yves Bonnefoy
  • Poem for Kathleen Ferrier / James Wright
  • Callas / J. D. McClatchy
  • On a recording by Maria Cebotari / Charles Gullans
  • Aging opera singer / Wislawa Szymborska
  • Va, Pensiero / William Matthews
  • A night at the opera / Charles Tomlinson
  • At the opera / Kenneth Koch
  • An opera house / Amy Lowell
  • Rosenkavalier / Charles Gullans
  • Orfeo / Louise Gluck
  • Orfeo / James Merrill
  • Death at the opera / John Smith
  • The end of the opera / Howard Nemerov
  • Richard Wagner / Richard Howard
  • The ability to make a face like a spider while singing blues : junior wells / Sandra McPherson
  • Almost blue / Mark Doty
  • Billie holiday / Hayden Carruth
  • Tenebrae / Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Jazz / Nicholas Christopher
  • Jazz in Paris / Jennifer Grotz
  • Satchmo / Kevin Young
  • "Boogie woogie blues" / Terrance Hayes
  • Blue in green / Grace Schulman
  • A love supreme / Gabrielle Calvocoressi
  • Thelonious Sphere Monk / Bruce Bond
  • For Bud / Michael S. Harper
  • How Charlie Shavers died / Harvey Shapiro
  • Bill Evans : alone / Jan Zwicky
  • Radio / David Lehman
  • Listening to Sonny Rollins at the five spot / Paul Blackburn
  • Nightclub / Billy Collins
  • [Bird was gone] / Jack Kerouac
  • The handbell choir / Jane Flanders
  • Seeing Mozart's piano quartet in E-flat major in the Old Whaling Church, Edgartown / Mary Stewart Hammond
  • Lines & circularities / Howard Nemerov
  • Musicians / Jan Zwicky
  • A music / Wendell Berry
  • Three street musicians / Dannie Abse
  • The accompanist / William Matthews
  • For Charlene / Nils Peterson
  • Cadenza / Ted Hughes
  • Seaside sensation / D. J. Enright
  • Nocturne / Kenneth Fields
  • The broken string / Grace Schulman
  • A fugue / Ellen Bryant Voigt
  • Farewell / Galway Kinnell.
ISBN
  • 9780892553334 (alk. paper)
  • 0892553332 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2006102261
OCLC
77476614
RCP
C - S
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