All the God-sized fruit / Shawna Lemay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemay, Shawna, 1966-

Series:

Hugh MacLennan poetry series.

The Hugh MacLennan poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting--Poetry.

Painting.

Physical Description:

viii, 116 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shawna Lemay scrutinizes some of the best-known art masterpieces of the Western world, alerting her readers to the power and peril of seduction. All the God-sized Fruit melds the sister arts - poetry and painting - in a sensual exploration of history, forgery, and violation. In poems rich with sensory pleasure, Lemay explores the place where image and inspiration meet.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

A Thousand Words

Self-Portrait: Threads from an Art Forger’s Diary

Doe in a Mint Green Clearing

Leaves or Paper or Wood

Edge of the Fountainebleau Forest

The Pink Undertones

The Drapes Floating All Around Me

Take It Back: An Ode to Shrimp Woman

Dead Skin Dust

Even Venus had to Learn to Love her Face

Ode to the Woman on the Bravo Espresso Coffee Can in Which I Store My Pens

The Captives Remain Serene

The World, Green and Disarming

All the God-Sized Fruit

By the Still Life Painter’s Wife

Aftermath of the Still Life

Detail of Tulip

Inventing Great Schools of Fish

Still Life with Greasy Noodles: A Travelogue, a Work Poem

Poses of Statuary

Out of the Sumptuous Chaos

Into the Kitchens of the Burning City

The Artemisia Gentileschi Poems

Fringes of Plot

What a Woman Can Do

A World Without Glass

Cooked Water

Perspective

Shade Garden of Your Bones

Emerald, Amethyst, Opal

Notes to the Poems

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

ISBN:

1-283-53098-8

9786613843432

0-7735-8301-7

OCLC:

767670263