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Music Review: Robert Paterson and American Modern Ensemble - 'The Four Seasons' Sign In Jon Sobel, BLOGCRITICS.ORG FacebookTwitterEmail As one of the most celebrated present-day American composers, Robert Paterson does not fear the shadow of a luminous predecessor like Antonio Vivaldi. Paterson's new album The Four Seasons is the culmination of a 20-year project comprising four song cycles, one for each of our earthly seasons. The prolific composer set texts by well-known poets - Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Carlos Williams, Rita Dove, Billy Collins and others - all on seasonal themes. ...

Basalt creeks the volcanic province builds difference into silence buzzing the ravines with the Great Wall of thought so that even the currents of air sculpt the shape the water makes holds all its early information in stones and sound of water over creekstone lava done the way flow talks that little hidden fender of itself to measure whatever’s in the way not a mistake just a fissure an isolated vent where the water will find around the rocks intentional waves an invert floor of floating worlds another culvert for an old old story the one that feels the river one way

John Wieners photographed in Detroit, Mich., in 1966. (Photo by Leni Sinclair / Getty Images) During the last three decades of his life, the poet John Wieners lived in a one-bedroom walkup at 44 Joy Street, on the back side of Boston’s Beacon Hill. By some accounts it was a drab, minimalist apartment, furnished with wicker patio chairs and decorated with Wieners’s own collages of travel brochures and movie magazines. The refrigerator was empty and unplugged. After he won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1986, grocery bags of champagne lined the walls—replaced, ...

A grandson of a man who survived the Holocaust takes up his fight to reclaim a family building in Poland. The journey is arduous, vexing, poignant — and bizarre.

Menachem Kaiser writes about his efforts to reclaim an apartment building in Poland that his family owned before the war.