Violin: Opus Poetica
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Product Details
- Publisher
- Sūtra House
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Contemporary American Poetry
Book Description
VIOLIN: OPUS POETICA A Poetry Collection by Larry D. Washington
A symphony composed in verse. Seven movements that traverse the full spectrum of human experience—from the ache of unrequited love to the thunder of biblical prophecy.
Violin: Opus Poetica is the debut collection of a poet whose voice carries the gravity of the Psalms and the raw immediacy of confession. Larry D. Washington has crafted something rare: a work that is both timeless and urgently alive, where the sacred and the sensual intertwine, where personal grief opens into universal elegy, and where the music of language becomes indistinguishable from the music of the soul.
The collection unfolds across seven movements—Violet and Blue, Mourning Before Morning, Psalms of America, Beethoven and The Rapture, Sin and Redemption, Je Écris Poèmes, and Libretto—each a distinct emotional landscape, yet all bound by the resonance of a single instrument held close to the heart.
Here is longing rendered in twilight hues. Here is the fierce love of fatherhood and the shadow of loss. Here is faith wrestled with and held onto. Here is America witnessed and mourned and celebrated. And here, in the final movement, is a dramatic poem of such scope it contains the fall of empires.
This is poetry that asks to be read aloud. Poetry that begins with a whisper and ends with thunder.
A voice that orchestrates the human experience—across grief and grace, shadow and light.
About the Author
Larry D. Washington
Larry D. Washington is a poet born and raised in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. He began writing poetry at the age of six and has continued writing for decades, building a body of work shaped by time, memory, faith, sound, and lived experience.
Washington writes all of his poetry longhand, maintaining a deliberate and physical relationship with language that has remained unchanged throughout his life. His work is guided by rhythm and sonic intuition, often translating emotion as something first heard, then rendered into verse. Themes of devotion, loss, reckoning, love, and endurance recur throughout his writing, which is rooted in real people, real events, and sustained interior attention.
Violin: Opus Poetica represents the culmination of a lifelong practice—one not formed through workshops or trends, but through persistence, listening, and an uncompromising commitment to poetry as an experience rather than an artifact.