A History of Western Music: Poems

by August Kleinzahler

In a career-spanning selection of poems, August Kleinzahler captures the essence of the West's greatest music.

In A History of Western Music, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374611920
• ISBN13: 9780374611927
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"