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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: gentle art
    sub title: poems
  name:
    name part: Wenthe, William
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: lau
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 78 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The poems in The Gentle Art move between the life of the painter James McNeill Whistler and a poetic version of the author, William Wenthe, who is at once inspired and disturbed by Whistler. The title comes from the artist's book The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, which shows the paradox of Whistler's refined painterly vision and his witty, brawling, litigious, dandyish, vindictive public posture. In the present day, Wenthe admires Whistler's devotion to his art, and the beauty of his paintings, most notably the liminal London riverscapes that he named Nocturnes. Influenced by Whistler from an early age, Wenthe aspires to such dedication and achievement. But there is a cost. In the pursuit of his art, Whistler abandoned lovers, turned friends to enemies and gave up his own children to adoption. In a kind of dual biography, Wenthe grapples with admiration and repulsion toward Whistler, as in his own life he tries to fulfill his roles as parent, partner and poet. While some of the poems are narrative and others use formal rhyme schemes, the overall effect is associative-two lives superimposed in a double exposure, from poem to poem and often within the same poem. In the same way, throughout The Gentle Art, the contrast of two centuries, the nineteenth and the twenty-first-evokes a larger social and political dimension, questioning the relationship of art to money and class and in one longer poem, to race.
  note: William Wenthe.
  note: Poetry browsing collection : gift of Eleanor Weinbaum family.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Whistler, James McNeill
      name part: 1834-1903
    genre: Poetry
  classification: PS3573.E565 G46 2023
  classification: 811/.54
  identifier: 9780807178713
  identifier: 0807178713
  identifier: 9780807180587
  identifier: 9780807180570
  identifier: 2023004048
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230508
    record change date: 20240105193404.1
    record identifier: in00004750278