{"product_id":"a-history-of-western-music-poems","title":"A History of Western Music: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a career-spanning selection of poems, August Kleinzahler captures the essence of the West's greatest music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA History of Western Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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 Bela Bartok.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKleinzahler'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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom John Coltrane to Annie Lenox, from opera to bebop and all the jingles and melodies in between, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA History of Western Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a portrait of the vast range of meaning and memory that music creates and contains in one's life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: USA, 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Farrar Straus \u0026amp; Giroux\u003cbr\u003ePages: 79\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 0374611920\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9780374611927\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"August Kleinzahler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51555812049162,"sku":null,"price":21.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780374611927.jpg?v=1753435594","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/a-history-of-western-music-poems","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}