Poetry and Fear
Edition: first
Publisher: Andromache Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781409236429
Subjects: love, spirituality, music
Genres: general fiction, literary fiction
First sentence: THERE ARE DOORS in the mind through which only the brave may pass.  Heavy golden doors, gem-encrusted, set in crystal, sealed with a thick sealing of blackest pitch.
Description: A short novel written in poetic and elliptical prose, rich in emotion, sometimes playful, sometimes tragic. Set in the opera world of Berlin just after the fall of the Wall, 'Poetry and Fear' is a gripping tale of spiritual love and pain and the whole damn thing. Orpheus singing in the Underworld. The melancholy Queen of Spain. For everyone who's ever been there, or wants to be....
Table of contents: title: Part One - The Queen of Spain; title: Part Two - Orpheus; title: Part Three - The Flight of the Butterfly