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Self Portrait in a Dark Room

Self Portrait in a Dark Room

Cariello, Matthew

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN13: 9798899900754
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Published: Aug 15 2025
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Self Portrait in a Dark Room explores how individual moments of awareness can be connected to create a life story. These poems have an ekphrastic impulse - many of them are based on the paintings, drawings, and words of Vincent van Gogh - but a better of reading them would be as improvisations on themes: presence, absence, pain, love, and how we spill our light in the world. The speaker is various. Sometimes the poet, sometimes the painter - and sometimes a mixture of the two. And although the book tells a story, getting / it right wasn't the point. The reader is invited to be a participant, not merely a spectator, in the recreation of the larger artistic narrative.

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