GREENWALD, Roger. Keener Sounds: A Suite. With eight oil paintings by Arielle Sandler. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2025. First Edition. Trade paperback.  6x9 in. 144 pp. New.

The poet, when young, listened to a violinist practicing and wondered: “Could words as well be made to say the wordless?” That question animates this sequence of contemporary sonnets, in which music as both subject and inspiration accompanies evocative explorations of love, grief, time, and memory.

“Greenwald composes with a rich emotional and intellectual vocabulary, and the music of his poetry is haunting and beautiful. This is important work by a poet I admire.” — Jay Parini

“Smart, syntactically complex, and tonally various, this is a remarkable suite of sonnets.”  — Kevin Prufer

“Greenwald at once praises the tradition and critiques received ideas as he sings in Western poetry’s most lauded and accessible form.” — Aliki Barnstone

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