Beckmann Variations & Other Poems - Michael Heller - Books - Shearsman Books - 9781848610873 - March 15, 2010
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Beckmann Variations & Other Poems

Michael Heller

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Beckmann Variations & Other Poems

Poetry. Ekphrasis, that ancient mode found in Homer's description of Achilles' shield or Keats' Grecian Urn, is here transformed in Michael Heller's meditations in poetry and prose on work by the painter Max Beckmann. Heller navigates, sometimes with Yeats as his Virgil, through a gallery of Beckmann's pictures, seeing them as uniquely bringing home contemporary civilization's catastrophic impulses ("as if days were not for sanity"), impulses at once horrific and unsettling yet strangely beautiful and restorative.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 15, 2010
ISBN13 9781848610873
Publishers Shearsman Books
Pages 80
Dimensions 213 × 5 × 138 mm   ·   113 g
Language English  

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