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Tripping the Light Ekphrastic
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639802067
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Nov 4 2022
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Devotees of the well-made ekphrastic poem-a poem deeply immersed in the visual arts-are about to discover another expert practitioner. Ronnie Hess' new poetry collection includes her takes on an impressive variety of paintings. Yet it's the addition of Hess's own layer of descriptive imagery that lifts these works of art to a new level, even beyond the boundaries of the canvas.
-Marilyn L. Taylor, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2009/10, author of Outside the Frame: New and Selected Poems
Whether proposing a happier ending to Romeo and Juliet, exposing a clownishly bad waiter, celebrating a loathed cockroach, or contemplating war and extinction, these poems embrace, with grace, tenderness, and love, this fractured terrified world. Often inspired by paintings, the poems are themselves painterly, a poetry of exquisite sensory keenness, which fills the stories Hess tells simultaneously with zest and sorrow, and makes us aware, at even the simplest moments, of the eternal tug of war between life and death. If you want to be dazzled, showered in rapture, you need go no further than this dazzling, rapturous book.
-Ronald Wallace, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of numerous books of poetry, including, most recently, For a Limited Time Only
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