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The Figure Going Imaginary: Life Drawing, Poetry, the Cadaver Lab; A Year in Pieces

The Figure Going Imaginary: Life Drawing, Poetry, the Cadaver Lab; A Year in Pieces

Boruch, Marianne

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Literary FiguresLetters & EssaysGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 1556596944
ISBN13: 9781556596940
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: Mar 4 2025
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.82
Language: English
Exploring drawing, fate, and the mysterious human body, Boruch embarks on a journey of dark wonder in The Figure Going Imaginary.

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.

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