Michelangelo's seizure : poems / by Steve Gehrke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gehrke, Steve.

Series:

National poetry series

The national poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

62 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]

Summary:

Providing poetic entry into the visual arts In "Michelangelo's Seizure," Steve Gehrke seizes the lives of several classic and contemporary painters--from Caravaggio and Magritte to Francis Bacon and Jackson Pollock--to demonstrate how these artists transformed physical, psychological, and political suffering into art. Mirroring the brushstrokes in long, metaphor-laden sentences, Gehrke moves freely through the canvas, into and out of the artists' lives, into the public realm, into history, to capture the way the creative mind can transform even the most violent surroundings--a prison cell, a battlefield, a madhouse--into a masterpiece

Contents:

Self-portrait as the head of Goliath

Self-portrait with doctor

Monet going blind

At the anatomy lesson of Dr. Tulp

Renoir, arthritic

Michelangelo's seizure

Late self-portrait

Caravaggio's The death of the virgin

Magritte in New York

Self-portrait as St. Sebastian pierced by arrows

The death of pointillism

Vanitas for Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1988)

Jackson Pollock driving

Francis Bacon in his studio

The burning of Parliament, 1834

The raft of Medusa

The death of Sardanapalus

Goya at the madhouse

Double elegy, 1918

The machine gunner's letters

Gassed.

ISBN:

0252031695

9780252031694

0252074203

9780252074202

OCLC:

71312793

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