A collection of poems from Livingston (If You Ever Meet a Whale, 1992, etc.) with a focus on music in all its variety, loosely organized into 12 sections, with titles such as ``Fiddles and Cellos'' and ``Brass and Percussion'' (featuring poems about instruments), ``Time to Practice,'' ``Other Musicians'' (the music of nature), and ``All of Me Sings.'' From William Shakespeare and William Blake to Langston Hughes and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the offerings run the gamut, with room for the melancholy of Paul Verlain's ``Autumn Song'' (``Autumn's long sobbing/Violin throbbing/A tuneless strain'') as well as the bolder, brassier joys of John Ciardi and Valerie Worth.
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