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"It is in a Blakean sense of Contraries that Carolyn Kreiter-Kurylo titles her first book Contrary Visions... The people in a number of these poems are deaf or blind or infirm, but the poet knows the world is no less various and intense when the eye is lightless or the ear mute, and she intuits how the senses may complement and supplement each other... Kreiter-Kurylo's poems proclaim the beauty and abundance of this world-of memory, history, art and music, of outcasts and exemplars and the fragile, natural economies they inhabit-and as they do so, quietly they celebrate themselves. They are their own best source of wonder...."-Peter Klappert, George Mason University. Award Winner, Yale Series of Younger Poets.
"The concern in these poems with the visual, with how artists see, is obvious and praiseworthy, but what strikes me even more forcefully is the variety of tones and sound effects that are available to this poet, whose ear is as keen as her eye. There is plenty of intelligent pleasure in this collection."- Henry Taylor, Pulitzer Prize Winner.
. . . just a white surface that is simply a white surface and nothing else.
Piero Manzoni
The child in thé paisley frock remembers
thé terrible storm, how her father saved
her, how suddenly thé white winds came.
Stepping forward, she folds her hands
intently into a gesture of peace
like thé dove, before her, darkening
thé surface halfway across thé canvas.
Beside her, two mystics vow
this is not thé coming of light
or white blossoms at thé hands of God,
but a cérémonial stone that brings calm
to any man, if only he will embrace it.
Whereas thé artist intended nothing
of this, no more than a white surface,
thé lilies I remember turn back years,
and I am a small child again,
comprehending thé emptiness of white
offerings, their incantations cold
beside thé burial ground. I am moved
by this stillness, by thé beguiling white
canvas holding just enough light
to enfold this darkness, this grief.
Donna Bruna
after Leonardo da Vinci`s Mono Usa, 1503-05
The enigma seems tied in with thé landscape behind her.
What is your secret, donna bruna?
The countryside pulls greens of a lake
into thé corners of your mouth.
The light hovers there, and it matters
that thé road behind you spirals,
tapers off toward thé west,
that a bridge softens curiously
against thé deep curve of your back.
How calmly you accept this condition,
one hand crossing thé other, light caught
forever in thé folds of skin, caught
in thé lunar précipices beyond.
The air clouds with mist,
and thé landscape changes
to Florentine streets
where a woman smiles desperately,
radiant créature locked in a pose,
thé artist painting
at thé end of a road.
Femina scura, he should let you go.
The light vanishes from skies.
Your eyes fill with years.
Four centuries, and your eyes,
donna
as thé day thé artist leaned
you against thé studio wall,
your shadow cast upon thé floor.
He should let you go.
Already, fog crosses thé lake,
rising toward thé veiled sky,
toward a woman running
over luminous hills
where thé wind passes over
like a crazed bird, calling
no need, no need to turn back now.
From thé Cloister, Saint Rémy
On/y when I am working in front of my easeî do I still feel some life . . . .
Vincent Van Gogh, Saint-Rémy asy/um
. . . Their letters and gifts
are treacherous signs.
- Autor: Carolyn Kreiter-Kurylo
- 1988, 1. Auflage, 122 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Digitalia
- ISBN-10: 0916379477
- ISBN-13: 9780916379476
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.1988
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