The broken string / Grace Schulman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schulman, Grace.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Poetry.

Music.

New York (N.Y.)--Poetry.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Long Island (N.Y.)--Poetry.

Long Island (N.Y.).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 84 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Summary:

In Grace Schulman's luminous new collection, music inspires meditations on joy, faith, death, and the heart. The title refers to Itzhak Perlman's resolution to perform despite a missing string, and so the book celebrates life in its fullness and in its limitations. Here Thelonius Monk evokes Creation when he snaps his fingers "to shape pain into order." At a street intersection where churches and a synagogue stand together, the poet recalls that "music soared in quarrels, / moans, blues, calls-and answers, hymns that rose up / together from stone." Hailed by Harold Bloom as "a vital and permanent poet," Grace Schulman praises the day even in moments of deepest sorrow.

Contents:

The Broken String 3

The Letter B 5

The Fifth of July 7

Query 8

Headstones 9

Blue in Green 11

The Footbridge 12

Kol Nidrei, September 2001 13

First Nights 17

Orson's Shadow 18

Thelonious Himself 20

Origins 21

Collectors 23

Art Tatum at the Gee-Haw Stables 26

Joy 27

The Horror 31

Death 33

St. Sulpice 35

The Crow Man 37

Borders 40

From the New World 45

Apples 47

Rain Downtown 49

Speak, Memory 51

The Row 53

Late Snow 55

In Place of Belief 56

Readers 65

Northern Mockingbird 67

Chosen 69

Walk! 70

In the Foreground 72

Lesson from the Coin 74

Loss 75

Cimicifuga 77

Harp Song 79

Waves 81.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-84).

ISBN:

0618443703

9780618443703

OCLC:

71004292

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