Singing Archaeology: Selected Poems 1943-1993Illuminates the aesthetics of a major American composer. While Philip Glass's operas, film scores, symphonies, and popular works have made him America's best known classical composer, almost no analysis of his compositional techniques grounded in current cultural theory has yet been published. John Richardson's in depth examination shows how the third opera of Glass's famous trilogy, the story of an adrogynous monarch who authored radical social and