Still Life / Ciaran Carson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carson, Ciaran, 1948-2019, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Poetry.

Art.

Belfast (Northern Ireland)--Poetry.

Belfast (Northern Ireland).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (44 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Winston-Salem, NC : Wake Forest University Press, [2020]

Summary:

In Still Life, Ciaran Carson guides us through centuries of art and around the Belfast Waterworks where he walks with his wife, Deirdre; into the chemo ward; into memory and the allusive quicksilver of his mind, always bidding us to look carefully at the details of a painter's canvas, as well as the sunlight of day. This master translator chooses here to translate the painter's brush with the poet's pen, finding resemblances, echoes, and parallels. A thorn becomes the nib of a writer's pencil and the pointed pipette of a chemo drip entering the poet's vein. Yet, Deirdre stands as much in the center of these poems as do the paintings. At times, the two seem to escape into the paintings themselves: "Standing by the high farmstead in the upper left of the picture--there!--in a patch of / sunlight. ... They could be us, out for a walk." Balancing the desire to escape into the stillness and permanence of art with the insistent yearning to be fully present in each moment, Carson reminds us--"Look! ... There!"--that in the midst of illness, even in the face of death, there is, still, life.

Contents:

Intro

Start

Claude Monet, Artist's Garden at Vétheuil, 1880

Angela Hackett, Lemons on a Moorish Plate, 2013

Diego Velázquez, Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618

Jeffrey Morgan, Hare Bowl, 2008

Paul Cézanne, The Stove in the Studio, c. 1865

Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with a Calm, 1650-51

Joachim Patinir, Landscape with Saint Jerome, 1516-17

William Nicholson, Ballroom in an Air Raid, 1918

Canaletto, The Stonemason's Yard, c. 1725

John Constable, Study of Clouds, 1822

Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion, 1648

Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877

Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake, 1648

Gerard Dillon, Self Contained Flat, exhibited 1955

Basil Blackshaw, Windows I-V, 2001

Yves Klein, IKB 79, 1959

James Allen, The House with the Palm Trees, c. 1979

Acknowledgements and Notes.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781943666386

1943666385

OCLC:

1133059905