{"product_id":"a-history-of-western-music-poems-paperback","title":"A History of Western Music: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAugust Kleinzahler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a career-spanning selection of poems, August Kleinzahler captures the essence of the West's greatest music. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA History of Western Music\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 the salon of Princesse Edmonde de Polignac and listens to the vibrations of a hummingbird through Béla Bartók. Kleinzahler's verse not only contains the same sonorous beauty as the compositions he writes of but also the vitality and complexity of the moments we associate with them--the way the soundtrack of one's life becomes defined by the scenes it scores, and vice versa. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom John Coltrane to Annie Lenox, from opera to bebop and all the jingles and melodies in between, \u003ci\u003eA History of Western Music\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of the vast range of meaning and memory that music creates and contains in one's life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAugust Kleinzahler \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1949. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eCutty, One Rock\u003c\/i\u003e. His collection \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Hours\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTravelers Keep\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the 2004 International Griffin Poetry Prize, and \u003ci\u003eSleeping It Off in Rapid City\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. That same year he received the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. He lives in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758663139616,"sku":"9780374611927","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/858a66678350fd2b37390a20dda44fc2.webp?v=1780131954","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-history-of-western-music-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}