Forever Music

Lera Auerbach is a poet, writer, visual artist, composer, conductor, librettist and concert pianist. She holds degrees from The Juilliard School in New York and the Hannover University for Music, Drama, and Media. Auerbach's first book in English, Excess of Being (Arch Street Press, 2015), explores the form of aphorisms. In 2021, she was awarded the Robert Creeley Memorial Poetry Prize. Her most recent book A is for Oboe (Penguin Random House, 2022), was written in collaboration with Marilyn Nelson. Auerbach's numerous works for opera, ballet, choir, and orchestra are regularly performed globally. She has collaborated with the National Geographic Society on a multidisciplinary symphonic journey, Arctica. She has also collaborated with Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center - in the creation of Vessels of Light, which received its American premiere at Carnegie Hall in April 2023. Auerbach has also completed training and certification in the field of psychology. She is currently enrolled in the Master Practitioner Program in Neurolinguistics, and studies Ericksonian therapy and hypnosis. Lera Auerbach was elected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. She is a regular contributor to the Best American Poetry Blog.

FOREVER MUSIC is a thought-provoking reverie written from the perspective of a child who is discovering the world through music. A mosaic of dreamy recollections, a glimpse into paradise gained of early childhood, this collection of short poems envelopes the reader with its hidden magic. Concerned with all that is sempiternal - music, memories, dreams, Auerbach's writing is fraught with vulnerable openness, throbbing with the pulse of its time. Ferociously tender, these reveries leave you thirsty for more of their fresh intelligence and intuitive grace. Auerbach's language has effortless virtuosity in its illusory simplicity, always remaining at the very core of experience. Lera Auerbach has developed a fine-tuned voice that captures and distills dreamlike recollections into memory snapshots on the crossroads of poetry and music. Inspired in part by the Japanese form of Zuihitsu (running brush), this book is an invaluable addition to anyone interested in language, memory, intuition, creativity, and child's psychology.