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As the Tennessee Williams of the taxicab, Davidson Garrett takes us on a ride through his beloved New York City. The poems in this beautiful collection bring to life such New York icons as Jackie O and Walt Whitman, but Garrett also pauses to witness the sad bones of the early days following 9/11, as well as the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. A whole history here as you sit back in your comfortable seat and watch the scenery. A really wonderful read. -Francine Witte, author of Only, Not Only, Café Crazy and The Theory of Flesh What better way to learn about a city than through its poetry? And who better qualified to write the poetry of New York City than a lifelong poet employed for four decades as a taxi driver? "I know I'm only / a little speck in this vast plot of commerce, but a speck that shines / its own light," writes Davidson Garrett, and that light illuminates a tremendous amount: encounters with famous riders, inside views of national tragedy ("I will be forever / haunted," observes the poet in one of the collection's two poems dedicated to his experience on 9/11), fleeting glimpses of people the poet wishes to know better but cannot-be it Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis or a fish food salesman from Secaucus-and the stoicism and humility of someone often unseen, who in his turn sees so much. Replete with Garrett's lifelong passion for the arts-especially opera-Cabaletta effortlessly testifies to the quiet grandeur of his occupation while paying memorable tribute to one of the world's great cities. -Anton Yakovlev, author of Chronos Dines Alone, Winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize Whether he's driving Martha Graham, Mitt Romney, a traveling salesman of fish food flakes, or a fare who angrily doesn't want any of his small talk, Davidson Garrett chronicles a cab driver's life in vivid, often gritty details. He transports us through 12-hour shifts from desolate early morning through the jammed streets of the "yellow caterpillar" in rush hours. He was parked awaiting a fare beneath the North Tower when it was rammed by a jetliner on 9/11, raining debris onto his cab from the immense explosion above him. It is often a hard life, with solitary time for meditation and regrets. A cabaletta is an aria, and Garrett sings it beautifully in his canary yellow cab, working the streets he knows so intimately. -William Considine, author of The Furies
A vivid collection of poems exposing the vibrant cultures in the Big Apple by a New York Taxi driver. New Yorkers can call him on (718) 399 7458 for a chat and an autographed copy.
"From the passenger seat of Sean Singer's taxicab, we witness New York's streets livid and languid with story and contemplation that give us awareness and aliveness with each trip across the asphalt and pavement. Laced within each fare is an illumination of humanity's intimate music, of the poet's inner journey-a signaling at each crossroad of our frailty and effervescence. This is a guidebook toward a soundscape of higher meaning, with the gridded Manhattan streets as a scoring field."--
King Lear of the Taxi is a philosophical journey through poetry and prose of a struggling actor who must earn a grueling living as a taxi driver-while striving to attain artistic success. Davidson Garrett's self-portrait is a glimpse at an ever-changing New York City-where the inflation rate multiplies by the week-and aspiring artists are threatened by an urban society that values real estate over the long-term health of the arts.
A journey through the streets of New York City, foreign landscapes and past and present events. From rattling Manhattan subways to suburban mornings, the collection of poems is a love story of destinations met, people remembered and places found at the intersection of words and dreams.
A book of memoirs and essays by notable composer, critic and teacher Arthur Berger. The author writes vividly about the music scenes in New York, Paris, and Boston, and of his work with notable colleagues such as Stravinsky, Copeland, and Virgil Thompson.
The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Music, in 7,500 entries, retains the breadth of coverage, clarity, and accessibility of the highly acclaimed Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Music, from which it is derived. Tracing its lineage to the Everyman Dictionary of Music, now out of print, it boasts a distinguished heritage of the finest musical scholarship. This book provides comprehensive coverage of theoretical and technical music terminology, embracing the many genres and forms of classical music, clearly illustrated with examples. It also provides core information on composers and comprehensive lists of works from the earliest exponents of polyphony to present-day composers.
Davidson 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... -Dean Kostos, author of The Boy Who Listened To Paintings; and This is Not a Skyscraper; winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, selected by Mark Doty The poems in Davidson Garrett's new collection, Arias of a Rhapsodic Spirit, 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. -Amy Barone, author of We Became Summer; Kamikaze Dance; and Views from the Driveway Underpinned 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 morphed into workaday misery, and back to self-redemption as the ghost of Ruth Gordon reminds him to get off your ass, remarry theater, then-risk all for art. With honesty, emotion, and humor throughout, he gifts us the wild wild wild wild wild wild wild of his heart, and ours as well. -Karen Neuberg, author of PURSUIT; and the elephants are asking