108 pages
English language
Published Jan. 21, 2018
Diane Seuss: Still life with two dead peacocks and a girl (2018)
- ISBN:
- 978-1-55597-806-8
- OCLC Number:
- 1002422847
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This volume of poetry takes its title from Rembrandt's painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence, and the viewer's troubled gaze. The collection shatters the notion of a still life, and presents the painting in pieces. With invention and irreverence, the poems escape their gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class, and luxury. Details from this gallery of lives in shards hide more than they reveal, like fragmented memories, waiting until they are reassembled into a whole.
Subjects
- Authors and artists
- American poetry
- Painting
- Still-life in art
- Themes, motives
- Poetry
- Ekphrasis