Joe Henry on Songwriting
A short clip from COMPOSED: THE INTERSECTION OF POETRY AND SONG
June 20, 2016 | ALOUD @ Central Library
Presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles
Like dreams, poetry and song enter our lives by way of a mystery—unrecognized and often uninvited. Both represent the speaking of the otherwise unspeakable: the place where real truth is unencumbered by fact, time is made elastic, and narrative emerges from the abstract to tell us something of who we are. View this special evening of music and conversation with two leading voices as songwriters and authors Rosanne Cash and Joe Henry (both multi-GRAMMY Award winners) reflect on the transcendence of language through poetry and song.