Michelangelo's Seizure (National Poetry Series)

Providing poetic entry into the visual artsIn Michelangelo's Seizure, Steve Gehrke seizes the lives of several classic and contemporary painters--from Caravaggio and Magritte to Francis Bacon and Jackson Pollock--to demonstrate how these artists transformed physical, psychological, and political suffering into art. Mirroring the brushstrokes in long, metaphor-laden sentences, Gehrke moves freely through the canvas, into and out of the artists' lives, into the public realm, into history, to capture the way the creative mind can transform even the most violent surroundings--a prison cell, a battlefield, a madhouse--into a masterpiece

Literature & Fiction

Gehrke, Steve

Poetry

University of Illinois Press

<p>Poetry. "Whoever you are, take courage from these poems, for if they tell us that life's not for sissies, they also remind us that, in the end, we all have a shot at being heroes" - David Kirby. "Steve Gehrke's THE PYRAMIDS OF MALPIGHI is full of intelligence, passion, and surprise.This book promises great things to come, true enough-but it is already a great thing, challenging, weighty and satisfying"- T.R. Hummer.</p>

The Pyramids of Malpighi

Anhinga Press

<p>Miller Williams selected this book to receive the first John Ciardi Award for Poetry, sponsored by BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Many of these poems explore newly revealed dimensions of the relationship between physical and emotional identity. The book's title, for example, is drawn from the poem "News Item: Man Receives First Hand Transplant": "Our bodies are repaired with metallic/instruments, microscopes, and catheters,/suction hoses and scalpels--/the resurrection machine." Yet the patient also imagines his new hand's "history of touches," wondering to what extent this new hand connects him to the hand's previous physical and emotional existence. This is a timely and thoughtful collection.</p>

The Resurrection Machine: poems

BkMk Press

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Michelangelo's Seizure (National Poetry Series)

Michelangelo's Seizure (National Poetry Series)

The Pyramids of Malpighi

The Resurrection Machine: poems