Books & CDs

David Lazar writes:
Alice deconstructed, Alice revised, in Alice Ages and Ages, Sarah White puts the looking glass through Alice and makes me feel as though Alice were everywhere, as though the first principle of…

(In Songs of the Women Troubadours) “Sarah White’s translations are faithful and contemporary without tricks…”
–W.S. Merwin

…I’d like to hold my knight in my arms one evening, naked, for he’d be overjoyed were I serving as his pillow –La Contessa de Dia

“Sarah White comjures visions from language that is at once beautifully precise and beautifully evocative. Sonnets, aubades and ballades display a deft penchant for form as she creates poems that resonate with achieved feeling.”

Seulete suy I am a small woman
wanting to be alone, seulete,
the way my sweetheart left me.
Seulete...

…The Poem Has Reasons, is a beguiling mix of memoir, poetry and… I suppose you’d call it literary non–fiction. It’s definitely worth a look; I’d go so far as to say that it's the most rewarding Rudel-related work I’ve come across. –Nick Riddle

Mrs. Bliss
On elbows and knees
she takes the man in
who feels like a baker
the way he kneads.

Benjamin:
An Opera in Two Acts (1987)
Music by John Carbon
Libretto by Sarah White

BENJAMIN BARITONE
I take thee Deborah Read, daughter of widow Sarah Read of Philadelphia. I will be your faithful helpmate. You will be...