Of poets, gods, ghosts, irritants and storytellers: Diagramatologically unleashed

by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

The three Ps of art: Poetry, Painting and Photography are conjoined with essays in this artistic offering that deals with what it means to be a poet, what constitute a poem, art, art forms, content, and the poet's vocation. It consists of 33 poems, 40 paintings, 7 essays, 10 photographs and an artist statement. Borrowing from the statement by Robert Duncan that poetry comes from God, and twisting it to mean that anything that comes from God and has a life of its own is a god, the poet here becomes a god. He is a god in the form of Adam who is beholden to the earth. He knows there is no heaven for him, so through poetry he creates a heaven for him and his readers using words, images, metaphors, light, lines, diagrams, circles, space, photography...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1779331509
• ISBN13: 9781779331502
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 8.5"