The Music of Being

by Jean Nordhaus

Poet Jean Nordhaus distills a lifetime of experience in her ninth collection.

The title of Jean Nordhaus's new collection suggests something light and lyrical - until you read the title poem and find yourself among the corpses in a concentration camp, at which point you understand that while the music of being is often harsh, atonal, dissonant, still we are meant for resolution, "to go on." A lifetime of experience is distilled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1956782532
• ISBN13: 9781956782530
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Broadstone Books
• Length: 80 Pages