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In this lyric narrative inspired by history, a former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner imaginatively re-creates the life of a nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist. The son of a white woman and an 'African Prince' travels to Vienna to meet Beethoven. The composer's subsequent sonata is dedicated to him but he, exuberant with acclaim, offends Beethoven. From "Vienna Spring" - though dipped in ink, this Jacob has grappled with shining messenger for a glimpse of heaven and won the battle: Entirely master of his instrument, he climbs the strings agile as the monkeys from his father's land. Ah, Immortality has a new-wrought, human face...

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"A virtuosic treatment of a virtuoso's life... stuffed with historical and musical arcana." The New Yorker "masterful collection" --Los Angeles Times
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* RITA DOVE is the Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of American Smooth (ISBN 978 0 393 32744 1), Grace Notes (ISBN 978 0 393 30696 5), Mother Love (ISBN 978 0 393 31444 1) and On the Bus with Rosa Parks (ISBN 978 0 393 32026 8).

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  • PublisherW. W. Norton & Co.
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 0393070085
  • ISBN 13 9780393070088
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages240
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