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Caught in the Trembling Net
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639806300
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Aug 18 2024
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Lorette C. Luzajic, founder and editor, The Ekphrastic Review
These ekphrastic poems, written to the paintings of three diverse artists, often culled from their own words, are exquisite. Karen George masterfully weaves Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Emily Carr into a seamless, feminist exploration that held me in thrall, first page to last. I will heal better, the poet declares in the opening poem of this remarkable collection. She longs for a whole new me eager to dissolve into embryo, embrace life anew. Join her on this quest. You won't be disappointed.
-Alexis Rhone Fancher, author of Brazen and Triggered
Karen George's Caught in the Trembling Net is a delightful delving into the art and lives of Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Emily Carr. The collection includes so many lovely particulars, as when she writes about the shapes in O'Keeffe's The Lawrence Tree ulnar, cervical, / radial, intercostal-a litany / to tickle the tongue. Yet more than that, George invites readers to see larger truths in these works. In The Two Frida's, she asks, Isn't everyone twinned, / split in two, bifurcated, / whittling ourselves / down to one true self? Ultimately, in every poem, George urges us to step into / that aisle of light, / whelm in that gleam (Forest Interior in Shafts of Light, Carr) of the art.
-Taunja Thomson, author of The Profusion and Plunge
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