- Grace and Stir: Three Poems of A. D. Hope (1989, 2003) high voice, piano 9'
- Text: A. D. Hope, Collected Poems, 1930-1970 (Angus & Robertson).
- Premiere—1990, by Karen Clift and Barbara Brooks, Minneapolis, MN.
- Voice range:
- As well as they can
- "With Thee conversing..."
- The Gateway
Program Note
A.D. Hope (1907-2000) taught at Australia National University, establishing a reputation as his country's foremost poet. He claimed poets like Chaucer and Browning as predecessors, poets interested less in startling images than in ordinary English. He was distinct in our time for his structured, iambic verse, and was noted as a timeless poet of heterosexual eroticism.
Grace and Stir was the first work I wrote after arriving in Minnesota in 1989.