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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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This is not a sky

This is not a sky

Piazza, Jessica

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ISBN10: 1625579179
ISBN13: 9781625579171
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press, Inc.
Published: Nov 15 2014
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Jessica Piazza's THIS IS NOT A SKY begins with the seed of ekphrastic literature, then yawns, then stretches, then bursts beyond those bounds. Each of these 18 poems borrows a title from the greats-from Raphael and Turner to Warhol and Twombly-and through imagined narratives, takes the reader both inside and outside the paintings. In Piazza's capable hands, the original art works serve as launch pads, and the poems are glorious departures. Through the guided commentary of an italicized speaker (sometimes commentator, sometimes companion, sometimes voyeur), we are taken to a long hallway wherein the reader wanders from room to room, peeking inside. Behind one door, The ladies wore boas and nothing else; the beautiful men repeated themselves, and behind another, You float, no floors, no doors in the office walls, hidden heavy hook of neck, crook of knee. THIS IS NOT A SKY is a multi-faceted sensory experience; Piazza employs QR codes in tandem with each poem to allow the reader access to the original work of art alongside its poetic departure. Through her finely tuned ear for carefully considered formal metrical structures and rhyme, Piazza merges music, painting, and poetry to breathe new, strange, and modern life into the grand themes that have long given art its universality: death, love, religion, and truth.

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