Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems illuminating the neuroscience of music

illuminating the neuroscience of music and its profound benefits for those both young and old

both raw and powerful stories of life

whose Moomintroll comic strip and books brought her international acclaim

From literary London to Jamaica's sugarcane plantations

these one-page mysteries with detailed artwork offer hours of engaging entertainment

Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems illuminating the neuroscience of musicThis career spanning volume portrays in stunning fashion Lisa Russ Spaar's exquisite obsessions: spiritual hunger, lingual pleasures, bodily decay. The "ringleader of a stunning lexicon" (Shenandoah), Spaar's poems are both colloquial and sumptuous, hyper attuned to contemporary idiom while rooted in language's primordial, earthy roots. Whether writing of the erotic or the divine, of anorexia or insomnia, of fairy tale or literary history, Spaar's