Singing Poetry

Natalie Merchant has just released an album, Leave Your Sleep, generated from a six-year-long project to put to music the words of a number of mostly 19th- and 20th-century poets: Robert Graves, Ogden Nash, others. Here is a sample:



Whether the singing of these things is a better experience than the reading of them, I suppose, is a question. But, they certainly do provide some inspiration to revisit or discover the originals. And I will be listening to this music again.

Find an NPR piece on this project here.