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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Two Self-Portraits (after Murillo)

Two Self-Portraits (after Murillo)

Shute, Bill

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798705291731
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 14 2021
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
TWO SELF-PORTRAITS (AFTER MURILLO) is a forty-two page open-field poem, in the diptych format used in Shute's previous book COMPLEMENTARY ANGLES, inspired by the two surviving self-portraits from the Spanish Baroque painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. composed in San Antonio, Texas, in 2020-2021 under lockdown from COVID-19. Shute's work is rooted in the post-Projective Verse poetics of Blackburn, Berrigan, and Eigner, but completely his own. The title of his upcoming selected poems volume sums up his approach: Junk Sculpture From The New Gilded Age. The poetry echoes his work with such avant-garde musician-composers as Derek Rogers, Mari Rubio (aka More Eaze) and Alfred 23 Harth, while being steeped in the culture and particulars of the present-day Gulf Coast and South-Central Texas. The book's epigraph comes from composer Morton Feldman, silence is my substitute for counterpoint. A career-spanning Selected Poems will be published by Moloko Print in Germany in late 2021.

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