Carnal world : poems / by Terri Witek.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Witek, Terri, 1952-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

82 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ashland, OR : Story Line Press, [2006]

Summary:

• The poems of Terri Witek's second book include memorable suites on painting and painters and the notorious Sitwell family. Witek is an expert at peeling back layer after layer of experience to catch a glimpse of the submerged mysteries.
• "A little blonde is the hardest thing in the world to dress though pastels bring up her skin like certain glazes and she's at her best in hats awash in cherries, flowers, and the silly mornings of the past . . ."
• Terry Witek directs the Sullivan Creative Writing Program at Stetson University in Florida. Her first book, "Fools and Crows," appeared in 2003. A chapbook, "Courting Couples," won the 2000 Center for Book Arts Letterpress Contest. She is the author of "Robert Lowell and Life Studies: Revising the Self."

Contents:

• I Portrait
• The Census Taker 3
• Painting Madame Gautreau 4
• Monsieur Degas 6
• Women Combing Their Hair 7
• Venus With 13
• Bonnard on Painting Marthe Bathing 15
• The Source (Woman Bathing) 16
• Ransom Demand 17
• Stomacher 18
• The Portrait: Artist 20
• The Portrait: Model 23
• The Studio 26
• II The Sitwells
• Portrait Riddle 29
• Lady Ida Sitwell 31
• Sir George and the Medium 32
• The Borrowed House-25 Chesham Place (January, 1900) 34
• What Osbert Saw 35
• Sargent to Sacheverell (Age 2) 37
• Edith Sitwell's Nose 38
• Edith Sitwell's Nose (Sir George) 39
• Schematic of Edith's Orthopedic Devices 40
• Edith Sitwell and the Carnal World 42
• The Sitwell Family Schematic 50
• III The Owl It Wasn't
• The Imaginary Marriage 53
• The Owl It Wasn't 54
• The Goldfinch (Het Puttertje) 55
• Still Life 57
• Incensing the Veil 58
• Edith Sitwell on Style 59
• December (The Hunt) 60
• Portrait of a Woman Reading 61
• Compagnia della Calza (Confraternity of the Sock) 62
• The Tempesta 63
• Circe Before the Reading Lesson 64
• See You Tomorrow Night 65
• Clotheshorse 66
• Wang Xizhi Watching Geese 67
• IV Color Fortunes
• Conte Bleu (The Blue Fairy Book) 71
• The Yellow Curtain 72
• Color Fortunes 73
• Summer Job 74
• Jacques Lacan Meets Joseph Albers in a Reggae Bar 75
• Carved Goblet in the Form of an Apple 76
• Why Your Parents Move to Florida 77
• Matisse's L'Atelier Rouge Reproduced in Black and White 78
• Landscape in the Blue and Green Manner 80
• Carriage Lamp with Wasps 81
• Warm Night 82.

ISBN:

1586540491

OCLC:

68727923

Publisher Number:

9781586540494