ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Roger Armbrust’s collection of 55 poems represents an extended love song for the world’s great classical composers. Many of the sonnets envision history’s maestros at some phase of their extraordinary lives. A few of the verses are celebrations of life which include a reverent mention of a master. Taken together, they convey the poet’s deep respect for these geniuses and the creative process. In one sonnet, he writes of Mendelssohn:
Sense of presence leading to reverence, not so much awaking as reverie evolving to understanding, essence of living within all.
Armbrust conveys this mood of reverence, reverie, and understanding throughout this collection.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Roger Armbrust worked as writer/editor and teacher for 20 years in New York City. He is a published poet, political and economic columnist, and novelist. He formerly served as national news editor of Back Stage in New York City, where he also taught a professional writing course at New York University. His novel Pressing Freedom is available at online bookstores, as is the new book on his creative philosophy: Go Deep. Take Chances. Embracing the Muse and Creative Writing, and the recent collection of his political and economic columns: The Vital Realities for 2020 and Beyond: Writings on Water Wars, Nuclear Devastation, Endless War, Economic Revolution, and Surveillance Versus Freedom. This is his eighth book.
REVIEWS
"Roger Armbrust’s contemporary sonnets plunge right to the core both of the matter and the reader. These accessible sonnets create an immediate resonance within, bringing this poetic form to the everyday reader and begging each one to be read over and over again."
— Raymond Hammond, Editor, The New York Quarterly
“I have known and admired Roger Armbrust’s poetry for many years. When Roger met the sonnet, he quickly turned it into a window on his rich and varied world. Some of his sonnets are delicate, yet they often display muscular rhythms and playful times ... but he knows when they need to be just that."
— H. A. Maxson, poet and author
"This bobbing, weaving, trembling, shaking collection is long overdue!”