In The Poetry

Here’s a slightly more formal poem – it’s a sonnet of some kind, it’s not in that book. But I mention…you remember Petrarch who’s kind of one of the Italian founders of the sonnet and I mention his sweetheart, Laura, to whom he addressed all of his love sonnets. And I just call the poem [...]

I’m going to close with a poem I like to end with sometimes – it’s called ‘Night Club’ and it just makes a little reference to a singer named Johnny Hartman – I hope probably many of you know him. A singer most famous for jazz ballads and also famous in recording history for doing [...]