English Poetry
Forever Music
by Lera Auerbach
A collection of short poetic reveries written from the perspective of a child discovering the world through music, memory, dreams, and creative wonder.
The Book
A poetic sequence where childhood listens: music becomes memory, memory becomes image, and image becomes a private theatre of discovery.
Book Information
Publisher Note
Forever Music is presented by Dos Madres Press as a reverie in short poems, written through the perspective of a child awakening to music, memory, and imagination.
The publisher describes the book as inspired in part by the Japanese zuihitsu form — a “running brush” mode of fragment, recollection, association, and intimate observation.
- PerspectiveChildhood, memory, listening.
- FormShort poems / poetic reveries.
- ThreadMusic as inner landscape.
About the Book
Forever Music gathers a sequence of poetic miniatures around the first encounter with the world as sound. The child’s point of view gives the book its clarity and strangeness: familiar images become musical events, and remembered sounds become a map of inner life.
The book belongs to the literary side of Lera Auerbach’s multidisciplinary practice — a body of work in which poetry, music, visual art, and performance continually answer one another.
Praise
Dos Madres Press includes responses from poets, writers, and critics who emphasize the book’s musicality, memory-world, psychological depth, and child’s-eye perspective.
“Pitch-perfect.”
Christopher Merrill, poet, essayist, and director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
“Invaluable.”
Solomon Volkov, writer and art historian, on introducing children to the magical world of music.
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