Study for Necessity

by Joellen Kwiatek

"Kwiatek's poems emit the uncanny luminosities of the artists' worlds they refer to: those of Caspar David Friedrich, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Odilon Redon. Each is a 'token of strangeness' built with delicacy and restraint, embodying, vivifying what the poet calls the mind's 'lonesome flourish.' Like entries in a recondite log, or the etchings, or tracks, of a complex consciousness, this work cannot help but identify its own material and spiritual corollaries:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609383249
• ISBN13: 9781609383244
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 7.8"