Music, Late and Soon - by Robyn Sarah (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A poet rediscovers the artistic passion of her youth--and pays tribute to the teacher she thought she'd lost.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A poet rediscovers the artistic passion of her youth--and pays tribute to the teacher she thought she'd lost.</strong></p> <p>After thirty-five years as an "on-again, off-again, uncoached closet pianist," poet and writer Robyn Sarah picked up the phone one day and called her old piano teacher, whom she had last seen in her early twenties. <em>Music, Late and Soon</em> is the story of her return to studying piano with the mentor of her youth. In tandem, she reflects on a previously unexamined musical past: a decade spent at Quebec's Conservatoire de Musique, studying clarinet--ostensibly headed for a career as an orchestral musician, but already a writer at heart. A meditation on creative process in both music and literary art, this two-tiered musical autobiography interweaves past and present as it tracks the author's long-ago defection from a musical career path and her late re-embrace of serious practice. At its core is a portrait of an extraordinary piano teacher and of a relationship remembered and renewed. </p> <p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><strong>Praise for <em>Music, Late and Soon</em></strong></p> <p>A deeply intimate exploration of the artistic process by a writer of remarkable maturity and poise. Unfailingly, her prose remains centred, rooted in humility, never drawing attention to itself. Her every word feels thoughtful, honest, and true. With this book, Sarah demonstrates that a life pursued artistically, when done so with sincerity and integrity, is a life lived spiritually, no matter what the discipline. Concert halls might be poorer for her career choice, but the literary world can count itself richly blessed.<strong>--Juror Statement for The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction</strong></p> <p>[Y]ou don't need to be a musician, nor do you need to have aspired to be a musician, to appreciate <em>Music, Late and Soon</em>. Anyone who has ever felt a vocation for something, pursued it, misplaced it, then tried to summon it again is apt to identify with Sarah's story.--<em><strong>Montreal Gazette</strong></em></p> <p>Deeply interdisciplinary and challenging, it bears intimate witness as the internationally acclaimed Montréal poet reckons with the parallel strands of music and writing interwoven through her creative and inner lives.<strong>--<em>Montreal Serai</em></strong></p> <p>It is a luxury to read a memoir about music written by an excellent writer who happens to have spent the greater part of her life as a musician.--<strong>Musical Assumptions</strong></p> <p>"In this historic moment, a book about the courage required to reclaim and salvage creative desire through discipline is about as necessary as clean water and air."--Michael Lithgow</p> <p><strong>Praise for Robyn Sarah</strong></p> "Visual clarity, no-nonsense voice, compressed language, rhythmic prowess, and metaphoric agility. These qualities speak from a long-cultivated focus and bespeak a writer who pays fierce attention to the basic fact of being in the world."--<em><strong>The Walrus</strong></em> "As in her poetry, spare colloquial surfaces carry hidden depths ... subtle and suggestive, working on several levels at once."--<em><strong>Globe and Mail</strong></em> "Her distinctively digressive style allows Sarah to accommodate tremendous complexity in her stories ... drawing us further and further down into the moment and at the same time showing us how the moment is textured by memory and experience."--<em><strong>The Malahat Review</strong></em> "[Her stories] lead us towards, and finally right into the middle of awarenesses that we hadn't had before. They leave you feeling like this: suspicious that you've missed something, teeth slightly on edge ... there is a faint sound of excellently played music somewhere ... one may be failing in what one wants to do. What did that little piece mean? Will I read it again? The reader reads it again and experiences this network of feelings again, just like the first time. It is very powerful art." --<strong>Hugh Hood</strong><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Poet, writer, literary editor, and musician, Robyn Sarah is the author of ten poetry collections. <em>My Shoes Are Killing Me</em> won the 2015 Governor General's Award and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for poetry. In 2017 Biblioasis published a forty-year retrospective, <em>Wherever We Mean to Be: Selected Poems, 1975-2015</em>. Her poems have been included in <em>The Norton Anthology of Poetry</em> and other anthologies in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., and two collections have appeared in French translation. She has also published two collections of short stories and a book of essays on poetry. Since 2011 she has served as poetry editor for Cormorant Books.
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