Ugly Things Music magazine - Review of Song to the Siren

In music magazine, Ugly Things #68, music critic Barry Alfonso writes,

"If you're familiar with a single Beckett lyric, it is probably “Song to the Siren,” the eerie invocation of eros and death that helped bring Buckley his measure of posthumous fame. Beckett's new anthology of poetry and lyrics takes its title from this song but goes far beyond it in terms of form and content."

"Larry has a distinctive presence in his writing, coming across like a beatnik Mark Twain who cracks wise, moons after elusive objects of desire and pines for exotic lands that may only exist in his dreams."

"There's an unshaken idealism and spiritual centeredness to his collected works. . . Taken together, the poems in Song to the Siren embody a life fully lived, told from the perspective of a young scuffling outsider and a time-seasoned sage."

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