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Musica Transalpina

Musica Transalpina

by Michelene Wandor (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $7.12
Synopsis

VI give me time I said and note my grace in loving you let me divide and ornament you touch you above and below circle around your key note enter your fifth dimension and perfect your cadence let me feel your greater and lesser thirds modulate your modes and minor your majors VII I want to trill your renaissance way beginning sure and supreme on your given, written note and flirt my way across distance to the note above taking you into history with me in dissonance Michelene Wandor's new poetry collection excels in the richness of its subject matter, the witty and sensuous language, the musicality of its rhythms and the way in which she is able to combine sophistication with accessibility. She is as comfortable with Italian Renaissance music as she is with the poignancy of the history of Europe's Jewish populations. Her retelling of the Book of Esther is a tour de force of Midrashic free-form poetry, and her speculation on Shakespeare's Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a tribute to both Elizabethan poetry and a mischievous imagination.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 101
 Publisher: Arc Publications
Published: 05 Jan 2006
ISBN 10: 1904614256
ISBN 13: 9781904614258

Media Reviews
This is Michelene Wandor's best book yet. She combines her erudtion and passion as poet, musician and scholar in a collection that gives immense pleasure, and also continually challenges the reader with the force and variety of its ideas. Alan Brownjohn
Author Bio
MICHELENE WANDOR is a playwright, poet, short story writer, reviewer, broadcaster, theatre historian and musician. She has taught in Britain at the Guidhall School of Drama, London, the City Lit, London, London Metropolitan University and at various universities abroad and currently holds a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at Birkbeck College, London. Recipient of many awards and nominations, particularly for her radio dramatisations. she is a prolific, and widely published, writer. She is also an accomplished musician, performing Renaissance and Baroque music with her early music group, The Siena Ensemble.