The figure going imaginary : life drawing, poetry, the cadaver lab : a year in pieces / Marianne Boruch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boruch, Marianne, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Figure drawing--Poetry.

Figure drawing.

Genre:

poetry.

Essays.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2025]

Summary:

"A memoir of journal notes, early drafts of poems, and short meditations by Marianne Boruch" -- Provided by publisher.

"Marianne Boruch embarks on a journey of dark wonder in The Figure Going Imaginary. A gathering of journal entries, lyrical prose, poetry, and sketches from the author's "Life Drawing" notebook, this hybrid collection recounts the unnerving and otherworldly experience of studying Gross Human Anatomy and life-drawing at Purdue University--an experience that also fueled her 2014 collection, Cadaver, Speak. In the studio, it's the music of "charcoal to paper, a netherworld sound" and learning to bring human models alive on paper. In the cadaver lab, its "flashing knives and probes and forceps" that focus on another kind of beauty, the body as "map, a tracing, evidence of a life." Guided by "the ancient task of learning to see," this poet explores drawing, fate, and at the fragile center of it all, the mysteries of the human figure."--Back cover.

Contents:

I Will Explain Why in a Moment

I. Shards

II. The Body Floats Regardless

III. The Fossil Record

IV. First Trespass

V. Figure Gone Imaginary.

Other Format:

Online version : Boruch, Marianne, 1950- Figure going imaginary

ISBN:

9781556596940

1556596944

OCLC:

1427665942