Chopin with Cherries de Maja Trochimczyk

Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse

Maja Trochimczyk

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 apr 2010

This anthology of contemporary poetry celebrates the 200th birth anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849). The volume presents 123 poems by 92 poets, including: Sharon Chmielarz, T. S. Eliot, Charles Ades Fishman, Linda Nemec Foster, Emily Fragos, John Z. Guzlowski, Lola Haskins, Oriana Ivy, Lois P. Jones, Leonard Kress, Emma Lazarus, Marie Lecrivain, Jeffrey Levine, Amy Lowell, Rick Lupert, Mira N. Mataric, Elisabeth Murawski, Ruth Nolan, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, William Pillin, Russell Salamon, Katrin Talbot, Mark Tardi, Devi Walders, Kath Abela Wilson, and others. The book is illustrated with vintage Chopin postcards and includes one translation - of "Chopin's Piano" by Norwid. The editor, Dr. Maja Trochimczyk, is a Polish-American poet, music historian, photographer, and translator. She published four books on music, two books of poetry, and hundreds of articles and poems.

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Maja Trochimczyk is a poet, music historian, photographer and non-profit director born in Poland, educated in Canada (Ph.D., McGill University), and living in California (www.trochimczyk.net). She published seven books of music studies (After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music (2000); The Music of Louis Andriessen (2002); Polish Dance in California (2007); A Romantic Century in Polish Music (2009); Gorecki in Context: Essays on Music (2017); Lutoslawski: Music and Legacy (2014), Frederic Chopin: A Research and Information Guide (2016) as well as six books of poetry: Rose Always - A Love Story (rev. 2020), Miriam's Iris (2008), Slicing the Bread (2014), The Rainy Bread (2016, 2nd ed. 2021), Into Light (2016), and Bright Skies (2022). She also edited four anthologies: Chopin with Cherries (2010); Meditations on Divine Names (2012), Grateful Conversations (2018) and We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology (2020). Her poetry and photography appear in California Quarterly, The Houston Literary Review, Ekphrasis Journal, The Epiphany Magazine, Loch Raven Review, Magnapoets, Quill and Parchment, Poezja Dzisiaj, Phantom Seed, Spectrum, poeticdiversity, and other journals and anthologies. An author of hundreds of peer-reviewed and popular articles and essays on music and culture, she taught music history at USC and McGill University and is currently serving as President of the California State Poetry Society, and program chair of Village Poets of Sunland-Tujunga.