The Andrew Wyeth chronicles /
While the poems in The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles can be enjoyed individually, as a whole this book reads like an autobiography of what the author imagined his creative life-rife with both losses and pleasures-to be. The author employs the footnote form to write a book-length narrative of art-influence...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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North Adams, Massachusetts :
Tupelo Press,
[2026].
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| Summary: | While the poems in The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles can be enjoyed individually, as a whole this book reads like an autobiography of what the author imagined his creative life-rife with both losses and pleasures-to be. The author employs the footnote form to write a book-length narrative of art-influenced poems (ekphrastic poetry) in which the character of Andrew Wyeth shares and chronicles his internal musings. The sixty-three Wyeth paintings that influenced these poems (dated 1938 through 2008) are the ones in which Baugher delighted in how the quotidian is made tender, a white sheet drying outside on the line or sunflowers' shadows against a house. As for her own writerly process, studying the work of this particular artist was a decades-long meditative practice of deep-looking, a method by which the author detaches from her ego. It's the mode of ekphrasis that allows for the type of personal detachment that Baugher craves. Wyeth's paintings, drawings and watercolors became portals through which she could imagine worlds beyond her immediate awareness and in which she could explore linguistic possibilities. |
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| Physical Description: | 98 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781961209534 1961209535 |