Soundtrack for "The Daily Mirror" [by Joshua Michael Stewart]

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May 20, 2020

Soundtrack for "The Daily Mirror" [by Joshua Michael Stewart]

Joshua Michael Stewart has created a Spotify soundtrack for The Daily Mirror by David Lehman (Scribner, 2000). It includes Ella and Louis singing "Can't We Be Friends," Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters accentuating the positive, Dexter Gordon's "Tangerine," Sinatra's "All of Me," Bessie Smith (pictured far left in a 1936 photo taken by Carl Van Vechten) singing "Do Your Duty," Horace Silver's "Song for My Father," plus Freddie Hubbard, Coleman Hawkins, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Miles Davis ("Bags' Groove), Thelonious Monk, Peggy Lee, and Nat Cole.

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Posted by The Best American Poetry on May 20, 2020 at 09:40 AM in Adventures of Lehman, Feature, Music | Permalink

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"Lively and affectionate" Publishers Weekly

Radio

I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark

from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman