& company / Moira Linehan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linehan, Moira, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xii, 76 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

And company

Place of Publication:

Loveland, Ohio : Dos Madres Press, 2020.

Summary:

Ars Poetica, Nine-tenths preparation, this artist's work. First, fabric between thumb and forefinger, feeling weight, texture, give, nap. The planning beforehand. Washing washable textiles, to shrink them before they're sewn. Laying out the pattern so the design flows, the plaid lines match, the dress drapes. Shears sharp so the seams won't pucker, twist, ravel. A seamstress's stress. Then the fitting, the pinning and re-pinning those seams. Right shade of thread? The sewing, seemingly magic, not one stitch visible. Each seam, steam-pressed flat till at last the sewn, carries material and a dressmaker's vision, out into the world, all in one piece, seamlessly. Book jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ADDRESSING THE HISTORY: Getting My Grandmother to Paris

Getting My Grandmother to Paris

Ars Poetica

Addressing the History

Before Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt

Becoming Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt

Young Woman Knitting

Getting My Grandmother to Paris, Take 2

Cut from the Same Cloth

Hours

What You Don't Want to See

Looking with Mary Cassatt

Looking at The Tea

The Fitting

Despite Having Written a Document of Legal Import

ADDRESSING THE HISTORY: Companion Paintings

Symphony in Flesh Color and Pink: Portrait of Mrs. Frances Leyland

Girl, Crocheting

The Wyndham Sisters

Mr. and Mrs. I.N. Phelps Stokes

Lines

The New Eve

No Matter Where I Go

Seamstress

The Ties That Bind

Ladies Union

Always Something of the Absent

Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1

Elegy

ADDRESSING THE HISTORY: Getting My Grandmother to Boston

Getting My Grandmother to Boston

Nowhere Near

At Customs in Boston

America

Ampersand

Across the Room

Paxton's Seamstress Addresses the Poet

At My Grandmother's Grave

Afterword

Grief's Library.

ISBN:

1953252141

9781953252142

OCLC:

1229125455

Publisher Number:

99987277123