{"product_id":"riffs-improvisations-9781639800155","title":"Riffs \u0026 Improvisations","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gregory Luce\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusic's ineffable power has never been so lyrically rendered as in Gregory Luce's new collection. Erik Satie, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, Charles Mingus, Richard Strauss, Nick Cave-such masters and many more appear here. Luce's carefully crafted poems are as elegant as the songs which they so deftly capture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNathan Leslie, Author of\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eHurry Up and Relax, Sibs, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eBest Small Fictions Series Editor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"That torpedo had our names \/ on it from the start,\" Gregory Luce writes at the end of \"Improvisation: Sunk,\" one of many urgent and poignant poems navigating to the tune of destiny and knowing loss in \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiffs \u0026amp; Improvisations\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e This wondrous collection gifts us inspired poetic \"riffs\" infused with musical sensibility, \"cascading like \/ notes,\" off the page \"like Trane \/ soloing filigrees.\" He paints vivid internal and external lyric landscapes: hospital waiting rooms, dance floors, and transports us to Paris 1920 with a breeze that \"wafts over the piano.\" Luce plunges into language with an arsenal of truths composing a score from the muses of lived experience-a luminous book propelling a voice we crave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAva C. Cipri, Author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeaving the Burdened Ground\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eQueen of Swords\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stunning poems in Gregory Luce's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiffs \u0026amp; Improvisations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e know ecstasy. They pulse, ache, and rejoice. These poems live in kitchens, juke joints, symphony halls, and most importantly, the human heart. Luce conducts masterfully. We feel the beat in a crowded Metro Station, we dance, mistaking our breathing for another's. These poems take us into the marrow of music, where rhythm recognizes its relatives in our bones. These poems take us into cold purgatory and a river of bourbon. Luce gives us Coltrane, and much more, which means, his poems save us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Ross, Author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eAche\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaising King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45532763357335,"sku":"9781639800155","price":1295.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781639800155.webp?v=1767897904","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/riffs-improvisations-9781639800155","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}