{"product_id":"arias-of-a-rhapsodic-spirit-paperback","title":"Arias of a Rhapsodic Spirit - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavidson Garrett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavidson Garrett's musical suite of poems resists labels. The poet actually acknowledges genres by shattering them. Not unlike a memoir, a narrative starts with [the] \"Soggy Hospital Room\" where the author was born. Here is a master storyteller drawing us into his \"Southern Baroque.\" Garrett is also an aficionado of classical music and its precision. Indeed, the book's sections are defined by musical terms. After all, this is not only a narrative sequence; it is also profoundly lyric and dramatic, fusing the poet's four categories. Here, distinctions collapse into a richly elegiac opera. Its plots and voices illuminate the poet's past, \"Polishing the soul's real treasures.\" Finally, the tether of punctuation dissolves, allowing an ecstatic aria to shine through: \"[W]ildflowers wildflowers wild wild wild wild wild wild wild...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Dean Kostos, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Boy Who Listened To Paintings; and This is Not a Skyscraper;\u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, selected by Mark Doty \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Davidson Garrett's new collection, \u003ci\u003e Arias of a Rhapsodic Spirit, \u003c\/i\u003e sing. They belong to a symphony of vivid verse that touches on opera, art, friendships, place, and fading dreams. The heavy heat in Shreveport, Louisiana, rises in poems set in the segregated South where the author grew up. Readers share in the temptation of luscious bakery buns, as well as loss caused by the \"AIDS plague\" in New York City, to where Garrett fled as a young adult. Bowing to destiny as an artist, Garrett gazes back. He eulogizes teachers and friends, playwright Edward Albee, soprano Renée Fleming, and composer Gioachino Rossini, among others who shaped his rich life. The book's sensuous poems-crisp, lyrical, metaphoric gems-dazzle and delight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Amy Barone, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Became Summer; Kamikaze Dance; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eViews from the Driveway \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderpinned by his passion for music, voice, dance, theater, and opera, Davidson Garrett's lushly accomplished poems propel us from his thickly humid Louisiana childhood into his early travels and then to his years in New York City. Through him, we are touched by the fear and sorrow of the AIDS crisis, the connection and isolation of loving, of dreams and passions \u003ci\u003emorphed into workaday misery, \u003c\/i\u003eand back to self-redemption as the ghost of Ruth Gordon reminds him to \u003ci\u003eget off your ass, remarry theater, then-risk all for art. \u003c\/i\u003e With honesty, emotion, and humor throughout, he gifts us the \u003ci\u003e wild wild wild wild wild wild wild \u003c\/i\u003eof his heart, and ours as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Karen Neuberg, author of\u003ci\u003e PURSUIT;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ethe elephants are asking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 110\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 19, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53344521027891,"sku":"9781952326271","price":31.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/HIJ_e5sbEi9781952326271.webp?v=1778725842","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/arias-of-a-rhapsodic-spirit-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}