The Sustain Pedal

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Carol Jennings' poems create a connection with the composers she listens to and plays on the piano—Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Mendelssohn—as well as with the natural world she loves and mourns for what is being lost. Retreating glaciers, volcanoes, coral reefs, viruses, the outer edge of the solar system—her poetic craft evokes both what we cannot control and what we must learn to control to survive.