Roger Armbrust’s collection of 55 poems represents an extended love song for the world’s great classical composers. Many of the sonnets envision history’s maestros at some phase of their extraordinary lives. A few of the verses are celebrations of life which include a reverent mention of a master. Taken together, they convey the poet’s deep respect for these geniuses and the creative process. In one sonnet, he writes of Mendelssohn:
 
Sense of presence leading to reverence,
not so much awaking as reverie
evolving to understanding, essence
of living within all.
 
Armbrust conveys this mood of reverence, reverie, and understanding throughout this collection.
 

Roger Armbrust worked as writer/editor and teacher for 20 years in New York City. He is a published poet, political and economic columnist, and novelist. He formerly served as national news editor of Back Stage in New York City, where he also taught a professional writing course at New York University.  His novel Pressing Freedom is available at online bookstores, as is the new book on his creative philosophy: Go Deep. Take Chances. Embracing the Muse and Creative Writing, and the recent collection of his political and economic columns: The Vital Realities for 2020 and Beyond: Writings on Water Wars, Nuclear Devastation, Endless War, Economic Revolution, and Surveillance Versus Freedom.  This is his eighth book.