Gray Realm the Ocean

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

The poems in Jennifer Atkinson's A Gray Realm the Ocean were all written under the influence of art-specifically twenty-and twenty-first-century abstract visual art. All the art referenced in the poems was done by women. Although many of these painters, sculptors, performance artists, ceramicists, and fabric artists have earned international reputations, albeit late in their lives or even after their deaths, most have only recently been given the notice and gallery space they deserve.Composed in response to the artists' multiplicity of forms, styles, modes, and moods, the poems are variously experimental. Drunk on color and language, line and lines, they don't so much describe the art as revel in it. No patriarchal anxiety here—the poet actively seeks to join in conversation with the artists, listening closely and seeking their influence. She ponders, interrogates, and celebrates the work, taking each artist on her own term—respecting the achieved calm of Agnes Martin's "Night Sea" and the flare and smolder of Ana Mendieta's "earth-body" work, the lyric voluptuousness of Joan Mitchell and the intellectual geometries of Carmen Herrera, the arrested explosions of Cornelia Parker and Ruth Asawa's cool embodiments of shadow, the sun-drenched reveries of Emmi Whitehorse and Pat Steir's un-skied star falls. Yet A Gray Realm the Ocean not only seeks to honor these artists—their work, their courage, and their curiosity. Taken together, the collection is also a meditation on looking—conscious, attentive looking—and the mysterious nature of abstraction.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-20
Mått:140 x 216 x 6 mm
Vikt:141 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Poets Out Loud
Antal sidor:94
Förlag:Fordham University Press
Medarbetare:Jones,PatriciaSpears
ISBN:9781531500894

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Jennifer Atkinson (Author) Jennifer Atkinson published five books of poetry before A Gray Realm the Ocean, most recently The Thinking Eye and Canticle of the Night Path, both from Free Verse Editions/ Parlor Press. She is recently retired from George Mason University, where she taught in the MFA and BFA programs in Poetry Writing. She lives in northern Virginia.Patricia Spears Jones (Foreword By) Patricia Spears Jones is the author of five books of poetry, including Painkiller, Femme duMonde, and The Weather That Kills. Her work has been featured in numerous anthologies, including Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, and Best American Poetry. She has taught at LaGuardia Community College and Queens College CCNY, Parsons, The New School, and the College of New Rochelle.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword, by Patricia Spears Jones xiIncognita 1Spirit Level 3"Night Sea" 4Like Somewhere in Saskatchewan 5She Would Not Say Her Work is the Work of Turning 7"Lemon Tree" 8"Milk River" 9Sufficing 10Abstraction 11Reading Nautical Maps 12"Mountains and Sea" 13"The Bay" 15'Womb-of-All, Home-of-All, Hearse-of-All Night' 17A Clear Jar 18White 19"La Grande Vallée XIII" 21"Sunflower III" 23Sub-Linguistic Mumbling 24Interior 1963 26If 28Cartography 30Show Me an Angel 31Star River Night 33Alma Thomas's "Orion" Is 35"Spiral Leap" 37Motion and Cessation 38At Sea 40Night Forms 41Night Vision 43"Femme-Maison" 44Irascible 46The Wall 47Fire 48After the Burning of Flood Christian Church in Ferguson, MO: An Exploded View 49The Melancholy of the Actual World 51Why Seek the Dead Among the Living? 52'It Remains to Be Seen' 53Quick and Still 54Seismography 56The Coriolis Effect 58"Uninvited Collaboration" 59Afloat 60Whole Cloth 61"Cranoch Glen" 63Looking 65"Character Set" 67The Provenance of Color 69Black on Black 70Sea and Grass 71Afterword 72Notes 75Acknowledgments 81