New York: Norton, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - A lyric narrative by this former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, inspired by a footnote to musical history, a recreation of the life of a nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist, George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860), the son of a white European woman and a black African prince, who in 1803 traveled from London to Vienna to meet Beethoven. Notes. 225 pp. ISBN: 9780393070088.