Famous Pianist Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Pianist poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous pianist poems. These examples illustrate what a famous pianist poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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The Marionettes Of Distant Masters

by Russell Edson
 A pianist dreams that he's hired by a wrecking company to 
ruin a piano with his fingers . . . 
 On the day of the piano wrecking concert, as he's 
dressing, he notices a butterfly annoying a flower in his window 
box. He wonders if the police should be called. Then he thinks 
maybe the butterfly is just...Read more of this...

Mingus At The Showplace

by William Matthews
 I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen
and so I swung into action and wrote a poem

and it was miserable, for that was how I thought
poetry worked: you digested experience shat

literature. It was 1960 at The Showplace, long since
defunct, on West 4th st., and I sat at the bar,

casting beer money from a reel of ones,
the kid in...Read more of this...

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