Little Double Elegy for All of You
by Anne Lovering Rounds

Description

The poems in LittleDouble Elegy for All of You tell the intertwined stories of a musician’s injury and recovery, depression and euthymia.  As episodes, the poems disclose the discover those spaces.  Together, they reflect a life of chronic love.

“In many of these poems,” writes Steven Beck, pianist, “Anne captures so well, so specifically the way one’s inner musical life is constantly in dialogue with the outside world—this is touching and familiar to me.”

Comments:

“Rounds weaves a series of meditations, vignettes, and confessions into a tale of loss and recovery, exuberance and grief, told with honesty, humor, and great humanity. Her poems accompany themselves—in the musicality of their verse, and in their recurring allusion to music and musicians. Deeply moving.” (John Kapusta, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester)

“The poems in Little Double Elegy for All of You are tiny mice waiting for the silence to tell them it’s safe. They are expert listeners and scuttle out in many geographies. I heard rustling and went to look, but found no disturbance—though I know they were there. I know it deeply. The poems remind me that there is something to be said about a moment and how, from one to the next, they make a life.” (Dante Micheaux, author of Circus and Amorous Shepherd)