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The Guest from the Future
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ISBN10: 0393316939
ISBN13: 9780393316933
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Sep 1 1997
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780393316933
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Sep 1 1997
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
It represents what Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Laureate in literature, called art's power of redress. Stallworthy's poems evoke women survivors; the poet Anna Akhmatova; the painter Francoise Cilot, Picasso's lover; a survivor of the siege of Stalingrad; and a woman who escaped war torn Poland, carrying in her bedding-roll a coverlet she was embroidering for her fiance and herself. This refugee's story bears a curious inverse relationship with that of the Lady of Shalott Tennyson's patrician artist in her tower, forced to choose between the world and its shadows in her mirror opts for the world and is destroyed; Stallworthy's peasant artist engages with the world and is sustained by an art that reflects that engagement.
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