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Crow-Work: Poems

Crow-Work: Poems

Pankey, Eric

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1571314547
ISBN13: 9781571314543
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Jan 20 2015
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.49 Depth: 8.55
Language: English

Dazzlingly alert. --MARY SZYBIST

What is a song but a snare to capture the moment? This central question drives Crow-Work, Eric Pankey's ekphrastic exploration of the moment where emotion and energy flood a work of art.

Through subjects as diverse as Brueghel's Procession to Calvary, Anish Kapoor's Healing of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio's series of severed heads, and James Turrell's experimentation with light and color, the author travels to an impossible past, despite being firmly rooted in the present, to seek out the songbird in every thorn thicket of the artist's work. Short bursts of lyrical beauty burn away like coils of incense ash; bodies in the light of a cave flicker, coalesce, and disappear. By capturing the ephemeral beauty of life in these poems, Crow-Work seeks not only to explain great art, but also to embody it.

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