ISBN: 9781639804740 - focused light from a distant star (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Toni Ortner's chapbook, Focused Light from a Distant Star, is a collection of 39 ekphrastic poems and prose poems. Most were inspired by the works 'created by women in the last two centuries,' says Ortner in her Preface including Natalya Goncharova, Frida Kahlo, Louise Nevelson, Helen Frankenthaler, and Kiki Smith. But men, too, are represented most notably with poems on Pieter Bruegel's The Magpie on the Gallows and Storm at Sea, which concludes with the lines, 'The heavy schooner founders in the waves/ We hear the sound of splintered wood and screams.'. …