“We’re not what / either of us expected, / are we?” Carl Phillips asks in his new book, Double Shadow. It’s a good question, and it’s one that raises another question, not only in this particular poem ...

— From the poem “Aubade,” by Philip Larkin, excerpted in the fifth movement of “Shadow & Light, an Alzheimer’s Journey.” When Eugene Concert Choir director Diane Retalick approached Portland composer ...