An edition of Waters of the afternoon
(2010)
Waters of the afternoon
a song in three voices
by Claudia Jensen Dudley
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Waters of the afternoon: a song in three voices
2010, Browser Books
in English
0982850107 9780982850107
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Table of Contents
I.
Prelude: The Question -- -- II.
Narada/Sushila -- -- 1.
Long I have let this song remain below -- -- 2.
Into one pool I fell and out of another -- -- 3.
I am remembering the sleeping pool -- -- 4.
I am seventeen and said to be lovely -- -- 5.
I am given in marriage to the finest prince -- -- 6.
What is this body and who am I -- -- 7.
My days and nights turn, then become full years -- -- 8.
My sons have children of their own -- -- 9.
And when I cried these words, the fire -- -- III.
Interlude: Between Journeys -- -- IV.
King Solomon -- -- 1.
Solomon, Solomon, hone your fame -- -- 2.
By day, my life goes on -- -- 3.
Then I remember Asmodeus -- -- 4.
The other beggars are much like me -- -- 5.
At first, we glimpse each other now and then -- -- 6.
The desert's smell is sweet -- -- 7.
The wave casts me onto a distant shore -- -- 8.
I have traveled for so many years -- -- 9.
The long wave, days-long, carries me -- -- V.
Interlude: The Directive -- -- VI.
Alma Sorensen -- -- 1.
Alma Sorensen, I know you do not wander -- -- 2.
It is all still the same, always the same -- -- 3.
Where are you taking me and what is my name here -- -- 4.
Ans because, Alma, you are beyond body and death -- -- 5.
I go down -- -- 6.
Is this what I asked to see -- -- 7.
At last she speaks -- -- 8.
Perhaps that was the only way to stop -- -- 9.
I must go back, go back -- -- VII.
Sushila's Canticles -- -- 1.
How many times -- -- 2.
Oh sweetness under the limbs of willows -- -- 3.
With the gold of my pain -- -- 4.
I adore the opening to what you are -- -- 5.
You have traveled so long and so far -- -- 6.
Not less than this rose unfolding -- -- 7.
What is this dance I Was designed for -- -- 8.
How is it that in making your departure.
Edition Notes
"This edition contains a CD recording of 'Sushila's canticles' ... sung by mezzo soprano Lori Hedrick Helfand, with piano accompaniment by the poet/composer."--P. [4] of cover.
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