Sebesta has provided vivid, literal translations of composer Carl Orff¹s selections from the Medieval Latin poems of the 'Carmina Buranai'. These poems celebrate the universal range of human emotion and experience: passion, longing, exuberance, humor, rebellion, ennui, resignation. Now tender, now tragic; secular yet reverent; the poems of the 'Carmina' touch the chords of our purest and darkest spirituality.