Funeral Playlist
Published on 10. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
143 pages
979-8-9881985-2-9 (ISBN)
Description
In her unique collection, Funeral Playlist, Sarah Gorham explores twelve musical works that might be featured at a funeral in the future. The essays engage the songs in writing, using the Playlist to examine the interplay between music, prose, and mortality. A series of memoir-like interstices reveal what art and artmaking can do to connect these subjects. The musical selections range widely-from Mozart's "Benedictus" (The Requiem) to Nina Simone's rendition of Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair. Caccini's 17th century madrigal Amarilli, mia bella, as performed by Cecilia Bartoli. Matthew Houck's (aka Phosphorescent) brings us something from the South in Be Dark Night, and the Wailin' Jennys add their simple, gorgeous version of The Parting Song. But there's also the song of a mourning dove, and the nonchalance of a human hum. All may become a medium of transcendence for the living (and, possibly, the departed).
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
979-8-9881985-2-9 (9798988198529)
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Sarah Gorman is a poet and essayist, most recently the author of Alpine Apprentice (2017), which made the short list for 2018 PEN/Diamonstein Award in the Essay and Study in Perfect (2014), selected by Bernard Cooper for the 2013 AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction. Both were published by University of Georgia Press. Gorham is also the author of four collections of poetry- Bad Daughter (2011), The Cure (2003), The Tension Zone (1996), and Don't Go Back to Sleep (1989). Other honors include grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three state arts councils, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Media coverage has included Bomb, Kirkus, Salon, NPR, Publishers Weekly, Agni, Diagram, Utne Reader, Slate, Library Journal, Shelf Unbound, The Nation, Real Simple, The Missouri Review, and more. She is the retired co-founder and editor-in-chief at Sarabande Books, an independent, nonprofit, literary publisher. The press was selected as the inaugural winner of the AWP Small Press Publisher Award in 2013. And recently, CLMP chose Sarabande as 2022 winner of the Golden Colophon Award for Paradigm Independent Publishing.