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Geranium Lake: Poems on Art and Art-Making
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639806362
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Sep 5 2024
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lovers of poetic language will find a lot to love in Geranium Lake. Schultz has an ear for the syncopated twang and buzz of speech, and she has a photographer's eye for salient detail. In Blois she depicts Barges across centuries, / sliding up the Loire / like garbage scows. and then conjures the sounds of harpsichords and leather boot heels, silken slippers / (deliciously-made as pastries, / slippery as fog). An old Italian postcard offers a Renaissance bell tower rising from the green-rimmed bowl / of Florentine hills like a Sonic silo, housing / seven named bells. The Sacre Coeur in Paris appears like an empty skull / against morning clouds' dove-grey tulle. In these terrible times, Schultz recommends the realm of the aesthetic as a respite, suggests taking time to stop and consider the world's jeweled surfaces.
-James Armstrong, author of Blue Lash and Empire
Leslie Schultz's new collection, Geranium Lake is smart, wise, elegant, and lucid. Read these poems aloud for their music, or use them as a field guide to an eclectic range of art worthy of sampling, including sculpture, architecture, old postcards, outsider art, even music and landscape. The eight sections lead from one to another like galleries in a fine museum. When I'd finished the book, I felt dazzled, also nourished and changed, in love once again with the textures and brilliance of our visible (and invisible) worlds.
-Scott Lowery, author of Empty-Handed and Mutual Life
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