National Gallery

by Jonathan Ball

Book Overview

Jonathan Ball's fourth poetry book, the first in seven years, swirls chaos and confession together. At the book's heart is a question: Why create art? A series of poetic sequences torment themselves over this question, offering few answers and taking fewer prisoners. Loose sonnets that consider the artistic creations of Leatherface, monster-killer from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, sit alongside Rilkean elegies for an iPhone. Surreal meditations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552453979
• ISBN13: 9781552453971
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.8"