Of poets, gods, ghosts, irritants and storytellers : diagramatologically unleashed /

The three Ps of art: Poetry, Painting and Photography are conjoined with essays in this artistic offering that deals with what it means to be a poet, what constitute a poem, art, art forms, content, and the poet's vocation. It consists of 33 poems, 40 paintings, 7 essays, 10 photographs and an...

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Main Author: Mwanaka, Tendai R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe : Mmap, Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd., [2024]
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Summary:The three Ps of art: Poetry, Painting and Photography are conjoined with essays in this artistic offering that deals with what it means to be a poet, what constitute a poem, art, art forms, content, and the poet's vocation. It consists of 33 poems, 40 paintings, 7 essays, 10 photographs and an artist statement. Borrowing from the statement by Robert Duncan that poetry comes from God, and twisting it to mean that anything that comes from God and has a life of its own is a god, the poet here becomes a god. He is a god in the form of Adam who is beholden to the earth. He knows there is no heaven for him, so through poetry he creates a heaven for him and his readers using words, images, metaphors, light, lines, diagrams, circles, space, photography...
Physical Description:104 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781779331502
1779331509