Preview: "Beethoven in Denver and Other Poems"

After watching The Immortal Beloved with the DVD gang, I was googling Beets generally. I was quite intrigued by this book after coming across its review this morning. It is a collection of 48 poems by contemporary U.S. writer Burton Raffel - the premise of the collection is that Beethoven rose from his grave and returned to this planet to visit modern day Denver, Colarado over a period of 150 days. The poems take the form of light-hearted, humorous conversations between the poet and the Romantic composer, and exposes the Maestro's views of modern music (including the Beatles!), city living, money, politics, chocolate, women, love and God.

Hope to find it at Kinokuniya, otherwise I shall have to Amazon it over. I wonder how the poems read. I only found one sample online:

(Poem 28:"Concert". Poet takes Beethoven to hear Jean Pierre Rampal at Denver's new performance hall. Driving home in the car, Beethoven is outraged that the program did not include any of his works:)

 His fist hit out at the padded inside of the [car] door; it
  was so loud, so vicious, so sudden
  and unexpected
  That I nearly drove us off the road.

heh. Sounds promising. In the meantime, here's one I composed just for fun:

The Maestro and I sit
On the sidewalk
of Ellington Street.
At the Bagel Cafe
Skinny latte in one hand
PDA in the other

"Too watery!" the Maestro bellowed,
"But the free Wi-Fi is good!
Why would I need to speak
Or listen to anyone
When I can send
And receive
Instant messages
Online, anytime?"

More on the Maestro, later.