Read From the Sketchbooks of Vanessa Bell (Parallel Press Chapbook Series)

From the Sketchbooks of Vanessa Bell (Parallel Press Chapbook Series)

Allison Funk

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Description:"…I, turning over the drawings/I've made through the years,/look into these mirrors/for some other shape the light might return to me…" As a painter may be endlessly fascinated with changing qualities of color, light and shape, so Allison Funk's poems propose varied perspectives on the "interlocking circles, intersecting lines" of family and world dramas that form the pattern of Vanessa Bell's life. Funk's phrases are distinctive verbal brush strokes, her clarity of language focusing the very light with which the artist is so occupied. Looking "beneath the touchable surface," she seeks to convey Bell's perceptions rather than her literal experiences. "I know the tissue-thin division," Bell explains. "[I know how] …you can leave the material world/for a vanishing point." Funk depicts Bell, sister of writer Virginia Woolf, reveling in what light reveals of "curves and hollows,/deep shadows and silver edges," even while the tragedies and betrayals of Bell's life as daughter/wife/sister/mother are darkly overwhelming, "...colour gone…/the lamps that one has navigated by/put out…" Yet the one constant, both for Bell and in Funk's work, is the reliability of internal, as well as external, light. While at times stark and cool, this light can also be restfully forgiving. "The light that dusts the surface,…/may be perfect,/though what it glazes is flawed. Love,/love seems lately/to abide in the light."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with From the Sketchbooks of Vanessa Bell (Parallel Press Chapbook Series). To get started finding From the Sketchbooks of Vanessa Bell (Parallel Press Chapbook Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 21

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Parallel Press

Release: 2002

ISBN: 189331121X

Description: "…I, turning over the drawings/I've made through the years,/look into these mirrors/for some other shape the light might return to me…" As a painter may be endlessly fascinated with changing qualities of color, light and shape, so Allison Funk's poems propose varied perspectives on the "interlocking circles, intersecting lines" of family and world dramas that form the pattern of Vanessa Bell's life. Funk's phrases are distinctive verbal brush strokes, her clarity of language focusing the very light with which the artist is so occupied. Looking "beneath the touchable surface," she seeks to convey Bell's perceptions rather than her literal experiences. "I know the tissue-thin division," Bell explains. "[I know how] …you can leave the material world/for a vanishing point." Funk depicts Bell, sister of writer Virginia Woolf, reveling in what light reveals of "curves and hollows,/deep shadows and silver edges," even while the tragedies and betrayals of Bell's life as daughter/wife/sister/mother are darkly overwhelming, "...colour gone…/the lamps that one has navigated by/put out…" Yet the one constant, both for Bell and in Funk's work, is the reliability of internal, as well as external, light. While at times stark and cool, this light can also be restfully forgiving. "The light that dusts the surface,…/may be perfect,/though what it glazes is flawed. Love,/love seems lately/to abide in the light."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with From the Sketchbooks of Vanessa Bell (Parallel Press Chapbook Series). To get started finding From the Sketchbooks of Vanessa Bell (Parallel Press Chapbook Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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