Conversations with Dead Composers at Carnegie Hall

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These are poems inspired by my impressions of listening to wonderful music (mostly) at Carnegie Hall from 2015-2018: with visuals and feelings my brain invents while inspired by the music.

46 Pages, 21 Poems
Publisher: Flutter Press

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These are poems inspired by my impressions of listening to wonderful music (mostly) at Carnegie Hall from 2015-2018: with visuals and feelings my brain invents while inspired by the music.
Sometimes composers from the spirit world do talk to me—don’t know why or how, but I don’t fight or question it—I just learn to ride the ride, and take concise notes.”
Carrie Magness Radna is an archival audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a singer, a lyricist-songwriter, one-time food blogger (The Hungry Librarian, at http://hungrylibrarian.me) and a poet who loves to travel. Her poems have previously appeared in the Oracular Tree, Tuck Magazine, The Poetic Bond VIII, Muddy River Poetry Review and Mediterranean Poetry, and will be published in Nomad’s Choir, First Literary Review-East, and an upcoming transcendent poetry anthology by Cosmographia (Summer 2019).
46 Pages, 21 Poems
Publisher: Flutter Press

3 reviews for Conversations with Dead Composers at Carnegie Hall

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    “Carrie Magness Radna’s new chapbook contains twenty-one poems based on her immersion in live performances of classical music. As the title suggests, some poems introduce the readers to the ghosts of composers, such as the spectral presence of Clara Schumann burgeoning as the deceased musician attends a concert of Bach, or Schubert wondering if his post-mortem fame and the love of far-distant generations can possibly be real. The poet often keenly observes and comments on particular performers, as in “First Violin (Belsca Quartet).” Throughout the collection, Radna concentrates on pure engagement with music itself, for example, comparing Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz to butterflies in Hell, “delicate wings beating themselves into submission a thousand times over.”

    –Sandi Leibowitz, author of The Bone-Joiner and Eurydice Sings, editor of Sycorax Journal and Sycorax Press

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    “This collection shows Ms. Radna’s growth from an interesting poet to a potentially great poet (greatness is conferred on those work retains relevance over time). The ghost theme unities all the poems in the chapbook as Carrie Magness Radna both reveals and conceals her immense inner landscape while she takes readers on a journey through her lover’s passionate engagement with great western composers and their interpreters. This collection reads as part mystery, part lover’s letter, part hallucinatory indie sci fi flick, part confession. You won’t be able to put it down.”

    –Teresa D. Hawkes, Ph. D, neuroscientist and founder/publisher of e-zine The Oracular Tree (1996-2006)

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    “Hear the sly wit in Carrie Magness Radna’s voice. There’s a provocative blend of experience and innocence in her perceptions. Her images delight the mind’s ear and eye; this poet rewards the reader.”

    –Judith Johnston, Emeritus Professor of English of Rider University

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