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Poetry Women Authors

Paintings and Sculptures

by (author) chris wind

Publisher
Magenta
Initial publish date
Jan 2011
Category
Women Authors
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781926891033
    Publish Date
    Jan 2011
    List Price
    $5.99

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Description

Each piece in this feminist and socially conscious collection of poetry describes a painting or a sculpture: some, a revision of a classic; others, an original work not yet realized.  Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dali, Botticelli, Monet, and Rodin are among the artists whose work is re-imagined. 

Artists interested in actualizing any of the pieces for exhibit, please contact chris.

About the author

Contributor Notes

chris wind is the author of This is what happens, dreaming of kaleidoscopes, Satellites Out of Orbit (containing Thus Saith Eve, UnMythed, Deare Sister, Soliloquies: the lady doth indeed protest, and Snow White Gets Her Say), Paintings and Sculptures, Particivision and other Stories, and Excerpts. Her prose and poetry has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including The Antigonish Review, Ariel, Atlantis, Bogg, Canadian Author and Bookman, Canadian Woman Studies, Contemporary Verse 2, The Copperfield Review, event, Existere, (f.)Lip, grain, Herizons, Herstoria, The Humanist, The New Quarterly, Other Voices, Poetry Toronto, Prism International, Rampike, Shard, The University of Toronto Review, The Wascana Review, Waves, Whetstone, White Wall Review, >/i> and Women's Education des femmes, as well as several anthologies, including Contemporary Monologues for Young Women, Clever Cats, Visions of Poesy, and Going for Coffee, and her stories have been read on CBC Radio.Her theatrical work has been performed in Canada, the US, and the UK. She has been awarded sixteen Ontario Arts Council grants.
chriswind.net and chriswind.com.

Excerpt: Paintings and Sculptures (by (author) chris wind)

sometimes in the morning

on that bare dressing table

in the corner of the bedroom

i can see my heart

hanging

my ruby heart

hanging over    over

                       the

                       edge

bleeding onto the floor

 

The Persistence of Memory

 

_______________________________

 

         strong, solid

                 chin on hand

      right elbow on thigh

left arm across knee

                          leaning forward

breasts filling in the spaces

               between the lines

 

         The Thinker