Between War and Here

"On a hundred Fridays, Carolyn Surrick brought the gift of music to wounded combat vets and their families. In these sharply observed poems, she gives us glimpses into the lives of The Few - that small segment of America that fights our wars and comes home forever altered by the experience." Neal Conan, host of National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation

"On a hundred Fridays, Carolyn Surrick brought the gift of music to wounded combat vets and their families. The intimacies of melody and rhythm allowed her rare access to worlds where most civilians remain strangers. Worlds of pain and loss, yes, but worlds of shared sacrifice and loyalty and resilience and joy, too. In these sharply observed poems, she gives us glimpses into the lives of The Few - that small segment of America that fights our wars and comes home forever altered by the experience." Neal Conan, host of National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation

Carolyn Surrick lives outside Annapolis, Maryland with her daughter, her beloved extended family, and two dogs. She received a BA in music from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MA in musicology from George Washington University. Carolyn has been playing with Ensemble Galilei for more than twenty years. In that time the group has recorded eleven CDs, performed for tens of thousands of people in almost every state in this country, Canada, and Mexico, has done outreach in the schools with thousands of students, and has created four special projects including their most recent collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, First Person: Seeing America. She loves her work.