Sonata Mulattica
A History, Historical, Poetry book. What a beautiful book, with topnotch elements of both poetry and fiction.
In a book-length lyric narrative inspired by history and imagination, a much celebrated poet re-creates the life of a nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist. The son of a white woman and an “African Prince,†George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780–1860) travels to Vienna to meet “bad-boy†genius Ludwig van Beethoven. The great composer’s subsequent sonata is originally dedicated to the young mulatto, but George, exuberant with acclaim, offends Beethoven over a woman. From this crucial encounter evolves a grandiose yet melancholy poetic tale.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9780393070088 / 393070085
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So I am no poetry buff but I loved this lyrical narrative. First it was about one of my favorite periods in history and it was broken up into short poems so if I didn't understand something it did not have a domino effect on my understanding of the overall piece. Rita Dove's writing is so clever. She uses all different kinds of different... How Does a Shadow Shine?Having read so many novels recently written with the sensibility of a poet, I was curious to see what former US Poet Laureate Rita Dove would make of this cycle of 85 poems that together take the form of a novel. A biographical novel about a footnote to musical history: the mulatto violinist George Polgreen Bridgetower.... What a beautiful book, with topnotch elements of both poetry and fiction.
