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The poet, when young, listened to a violinist practicing and wondered: ""Could words as well be made to say the wordless?"" This question animates Keener Sounds: A Suite, a sequence of contemporary sonnets in which music as both subject and inspiration accompanies evocative explorations of love, grief, time, and memory. With a bold lyricism, Roger Greenwald makes the sonnet form his own, both vital and new. Paintings by Arielle Sandler serve as intermezzos between the sections of this moving poetic suite.

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""Greenwald composes with a rich emotional and intellectual vocabulary, and the music of his poetry is haunting and beautiful. This is important work by a poet I admire."" -- Jay Parini ""In these often charged, emotionally resonant sonnets, Greenwald at once praises the tradition and critiques received ideas as he sings in Western poetry's most lauded and accessible form."" --- Aliki Barnstone ""Smart, syntactically complex, and tonally various, this is a remarkable suite of sonnets."" -- Kevin Prufer

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Roger Greenwald attended The City College of New York and the Poetry Project workshop at St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery, then completed graduate degrees at the University of Toronto. He has won two CBC Literary Awards, the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Award, and many awards for translations from Scandinavian languages.He has published four earlier books of poems: Connecting Flight, Slow Mountain Train, The Half-Life, and An Opening in the Vertical World. Arielle Sandler holds a BFA in painting from Washington University in St. Louis. Her paintings have appeared in movies, television programs, and publications including the New York Times and New American Paintings. Her work is in museum, corporate, public, and private collections around the world.

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