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February 3, 2021
Sylvie Baumgartel 's Playlist for Her Poetry Collection "Pink"
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others.
Sylvie Baumgartel's Pink is a breathtaking and poignant poetry collection.
Publishers Weekly wrote of the book:
"One of [Baumgartel's] strengths is her ability to approach grisly subjects without hesitation or theatrical indulgence . . . Baumgartel offers a kinetic and transgressive testament to an age of violence, strangeness, and bewilderment"
In her words, here is Sylvie Baumgartel's Book Notes music playlist for her poetry collection Pink:
I have a particular passion for music—it matters enormously to me and to my writing.
Here is a list of works that are especially important to me.
La Folia, Corelli
Cantata 182, J.S. Bach
Missarum Liber Primus, G. P. da Palestrina
Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, J.S. Bach
12 Concerti grossi, Chiara Banchini 2/2, Francesco Geminiani
Dixit Dominus, Handel
Motetes, 225-227, J.S. Bach
Concerto Grosso in D minor. Op.3 nº11, Antonio Vivaldi
L’Orfeo Favola in Musica, Claudio Monteverdi (Jordi Savall)
When Bach was on his deathbed, he said something like, “Don’t worry about me, I’m going to where the music comes from.”
Sylvie Baumgartel is the author of Song of Songs (FSG, 2019). Her poems have appeared in The Financial Times, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Subtropics, Raritan, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, the PEN Poetry series, and The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from "The Paris Review. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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