{"id":623,"date":"2009-09-07T04:29:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=623"},"modified":"2017-04-07T11:55:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T11:55:50","slug":"sonata-mulattica-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Sonata Mulattica: Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\/books\/978-0-393-33893-5\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Sonata Mulattica: Poems<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\/books\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">W. W. Norton &amp; Company, Inc.<\/a><br \/>\n2009<br \/>\n240 pages<br \/>\n6.3 \u00d7 9.3 in<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-393-07008-8<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engl.virginia.edu\/people\/rfd4b\" target=\"_blank\">Rita Dove<\/a><\/strong>, Commonwealth Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\/books\/978-0-393-33893-5\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/5145hn1j8nL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a book-length lyric narrative inspired by history and imagination, a much celebrated poet re-creates the life of a nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist.<\/p>\n<p>The son of a white woman and an \u201cAfrican Prince,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Bridgetower\" target=\"_blank\">George Polgreen Bridgetower<\/a> (1780\u20131860) travels to Vienna to meet \u201cbad-boy\u201d genius <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ludwig_van_Beethoven\" target=\"_blank\">Ludwig van Beethoven<\/a>.\u00a0 The great composer\u2019s subsequent sonata is originally dedicated to the young <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a> but George, exuberant with acclaim, offends Beethoven over a woman. From this crucial encounter evolves a grandiose yet melancholy poetic tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a book-length lyric narrative inspired by history and imagination, a much celebrated poet re-creates the life of a nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1245,11,459,8,15,1617],"tags":[15681,8426,8449,136,135,1392,134,1300],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-poetry-books","tag-george-augustus-bridgetower","tag-george-augustus-polgreen-bridgetower","tag-george-bridgetower","tag-george-polgreen-bridgetower","tag-ludwig-van-beethoven","tag-music","tag-rita-dove","tag-w-w-norton-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53301,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/53301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}