Imaginarium: Sightings, Galleries, Sightlines E-Book

A. Robert Lee

• Herausgeber: 2Leaf Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

IMAGINARIUM: SIGHTINGS, GALLERIES, SIGHTLINES, A. Robert Lee’s latest collection of poetry, turns on two connecting keynotes: imagination and sight. Across a broad canvas each of its sequences explores the ways we go about imagining as much as seeing reality, whether it’s the celebrated paintings of J.M.W. Turner and Frida Kahlo, a French archeological cave, the Bosphorus Straits, a major Japanese waterfall or Memphis’s Beale Street. IMAGINARIUM invited readers into a two-way exchange, imagination as seeing, seeing as imagination.

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Here's what people are saying about IMAGINARIUM

"A voyage with the ever present panoramic A. Robert Lee – poet, cultural historian, critical writer. This collection is a cartography, a call and response, a resonance and a celebration of "meticulous horizontals," "Eisensteinian screams" and other luscious optics and beloved poetries. I appreciate the close reading, scholarship, and delight of these imaginariums."

—Anne Waldman, Fast Speaking Woman

"A. Robert Lee imagines the sights and sayings of painters, poets and places, and detects the symbolic cues of continents, museums, and cultural coincidence."

—Gerald Vizenor, Almost Ashore

"Imaginarium reveals the keen eye of a well-traveled poet. The ekphrastic poems that envoice eighteen paintings are a delight. Deep-textured and infused with history, his poetry overall satisfyingly offers the gift of evocation and invocation."

—Tino Villanueva, So Spoke Penelope

Poetry by A. Robert Lee

P.O. Box 4378 Grand Central Station New York, New York [email protected]

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Library of Congress Control Number:  2013953971 Print Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1-940939-05-6ePub Edition, 978-1-940939-06-3

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Credits

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Book design and layout: Gabrielle David, www.gabrielle-david.com

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Table of Contents

Blurb Captions

Title Page

Copyright Page

Disclaimer: Note to the Reader

Credits

Dedication

PREFACE

SIGHTINGS

J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship

Claude Monet, Water-Lilies

Paul Gauguin, A Man with Axe

Joan Miró, The Singing Fish

George Grosz, The Funeral

Frida Kahlo, Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird