Several months ago I attended a concert at New York’s Lincoln Center commemorating the 50th anniversary of WNYC, the not-for-profit radio station that is home to National Public Radio, and one of only two stations left in Manhattan that broadcast classical music. (The third, WNCN, recently switched over from yesterday’s court favorites to today’s rock...
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For Love of the Muse
“All that matters now is poetry In which the feeling is the thought.” —from “Paysages Legendaires” When writing about the poet Peter Russell, it is hard to know where to begin. First, there is the matter of his prolificness, and the sheer vastness of his oeuvre: Russell, who describes poetry as being “dangerously near the...