I Write This Poem Out Of Darkness (Choral version)
by Elizabeth Alexander
SSA - Sheet Music

Women's Chorus and Piano (SSA choir (women's choir), flute, violin and piano) - Moderately Advanced

SKU: SF.SEA-024-00

Composed by Elizabeth Alexander. Collegiate Repertoire, Community Chorus, Concert Music. Darkness & Light, Secular, Choral. Octavo. With Text language: English. Duration 7 minutes. Published by Seafarer Press (SF.SEA-024-00).

Poem by George Ella Lyon, "Growing Light".

In George Ella Lyon's poem, "Growing Light," an isolated poet reaches out to an imagined reader, offering encouragement and solidarity. Elizabeth Alexander's expressive musical setting reflects this sense of solitude and strength, featuring prominent vocal and instrumental solos. A moving musical testimony to art's ability to speak the truth, transcending the limitations of time and space.

Commissioned by Women's Works (Ithaca, NY)

Text: I write this poem out of darkness to you who are also in darkness because our lives demand it. This poem is a hand on your shoulder a bone touch to go with you through the hard birth of vision. In other words, love shapes this poem is the fist that holds the chisel, muscle that drags marble and burns with the weight of believing a face lives in the stone a breathing word in the body. I tell you though the darkness has been ours words will give us give our eyes, opened in promise a growing light. Copyright 1994 by George Ella Lyon. Reprinted by permission of the author.