Chris Price's The Blind Singer PDF

By Chris Price

How does 'music carry us up'? within the Blind Singer, Wellington author Chris fee 'cultivates the artwork / of listening' to discover this query. expense has a transparent and designated ear and the poems dance and shimmer round 'the middle of our hearing'. and he or she attracts on wider fabric: track and technological know-how meet, shake fingers, are brought to background. Scepticism contends with superstition, and blindness and sight interrogate one another, finally agreeing that 'Sometimes/ you need to draw back so that you can see'. cost knits the curious and the arcane into her strains in poems variously elegiac, melodic, fiery, captivating, observant and dramatic. The Blind Singer ends strongly with Price's lengthy series 'The Angel Question', initially written for the science-literature undertaking Are Angels okay? (2006). right here rate considers - when it comes to Einstein, Rilke and Picasso - how 'each vibrant / notion has its history': searching for strains of angels; jogging the brilliant line among poetry and physi; and concluding that 'maybe a lifestyles can hold / from a thread of song'. Bursting with musical parts from bells, nursery rhymes and standard ballads to Chaplin and Einstein taking part in string quartets and the Tubists' common Brotherhood organization, The Blind Singer is a luminous functionality that keeps to reverberate within the head lengthy after the interpreting is over.

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