Book of Songs

By Norman Schwenk

Norman Schwenk's new collection, "Book of Songs," brings together poems and song lyrics of many varieties: love songs and ballads, dance and battle songs, satires and laments; there is a march, a lullaby, a hymn, a rock-and-roll song, a Christmas carol, a birthday song, a cowboy song, and even a song for a klezmer band. His models are the Scots bard Robbie Burns and the Essex singer-songwriter Adrian May, whom he calls his "song-writing mentor." He also pays homage to his American contemporary, Tom Waits, the Elizabethan song-writer, Thomas Campion, and the Victorian lyricist, W.S. Gilbert, whom he describes as "an honorary Schwenk."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910409871
• ISBN13: 9781910409879
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Parthian
• Length: 58 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.8" x 7.8"