- Paperback: 75 pages
- Publisher: Arc Publications (Oct 23 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1904614345
- ISBN-13: 978-1904614340
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 118 g
- See Complete Table of Contents
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"Joanna Boulter's superb new book, a novella in an impressive variety of verse forms, translates the composer's life and fears into a musical language which, in all its repsects, brings illumination to Shostakovich's gifts for honesty and truth under pressure." David Morley
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Joanna Boulter's first full-length poetry collection takes the form of a long sequence based on the life and turbulent times of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Taking Shostakovich's "Preludes & Fugues" as her starting point, the poet puts together a deeply-considered and thoroughly-researched account of the composer's life, with the 'preludes' written in free or invented forms in the third person, and the 'fugues' in any strict poetic form in the first person as the voice of the composer himself. The effect of these poems is cumulative and together they make an original contribution to the assessment and celebration of the life and work of Shostakovich.
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Note: this is Not Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues, Jan 7 2012
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This review is from: Twenty Four Preludes and Fugues on Dmitri Shostakovich (Paperback)
This is notI expected this to literally be Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues. I intended to play it on the piano.However, this book was merely poetry vaguely about these preludes and fugues.
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