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Music may be the universal language that needs no words-the "language where all language ends," as Rilke put it-but that has not stopped poets from ancient times to the present from trying to represent it in verse.Here are Rumi and Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bishop and Billy Collins; the wild pipes of William Blake, the weeping guitars of Federico Garcia Lorca, and the jazz rhythms of Langston Hughes; Wallace Stevens on Mozart and Thom Gunn on Elvis-the range of poets and of their approaches to the subject is as wide and varied as music itself.The poems are divided into sections on pop and rock, jazz and blues, specific composers and works, various musical instruments, the human voice, the connection between music and love, and music at the close of life. The result is a symphony of poetic voices of all tenors and tones, the perfect gift for all musicians and music lovers. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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It’s always hard to really review anthologies, because there are so many authors and tones and I want to give everyone their due but I can’t and really, a good collection’s about the collection and the layout of the poems as much as anything else. Suffice to say, there are some profoundly moving poems in this book, from poets who clearly understood the power of music and musical imagery, who were rhapsodic about pop groups and classical composers and the sound of singing on the breeze. There are also excerpts of longer poems, which left me wishing the whole piece, or even a longer excerpt, had been included because I felt a lot was missing, and other poems that didn’t seem to have much place in the book except that they had a word like “violin” in them.
As for diversity, there’s a good range of topics, verse types, and eras. You’ll find a poem or two you like, no matter your taste! But it’s fairly heavily weighted to the Western canon and musical styles, to Anglo authors, and to white people. I count a solid handful of Black poets, but only two from the Middle East and one from China. I know there’s a stronger musical tradition in Asia than that! Surely more than one poet has written about it! Not to mention Africa, Latin America, Indigenous peoples….
So my real criticism is that this book, like most of the others I’ve read, suffered from narrow thinking and a lack of imagination. For all it’s a solid collection, it could’ve had more punch and a wider scope, and I think it will probably appeal more to the casual poetry reader and listener to music than it will to people solidly steeped in either. (Music is my second love after words and like I said, some poems hit home and others … I’ve felt more listening to symphonies and rock songs than those poems evoked.)
I did discover a few new poets, though, and there were a few poems I had to double back on not because I didn’t get them the first time but because the writing was so good. It’s a good collection for what it is, I was delighted every handful of pages, and I’m not going to stop picking up this series anytime soon, for all I often wish they were slightly better.
To bear in mind: Not really applicable this time round, except for the rather Western selection.
7/10 ( )