GR Liner notes
Why a poetry album? Easy answer: I love poetry. I love reading it. I love memorizing it. I love hearing great actors recite it. As the poet Mark Strand wrote, “Ink runs from the corners of my mouth/There is no happiness like mine/ I have been eating poetry.”
In the past, when I was full from the eating, I have had the audacity to set poetry to music. But, on this CD, the only music you will find is the music of the poems. Poetry unadorned. Because in truth, great poetry needs nothing but a great actor, a voice as eloquent and expressive as the poem itself, to lift the poem off the page and into the heart.
I have never done a project which has elicited so much enthusiasm. From the actors arriving at the studio who thanked me for inviting them to participate--are you kidding, I’d say, thank you!-- to the engineers who would say, “I never got this stuff, but these guys make it so beautiful.—this album has been a joy from beginning to end, a true labor of love. And whenever the production process made me hungry, I always knew I could find something delicious to eat in the studio. Mmmm. Yeats? That hits the spot.
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