Van Gogh in Poems - Softcover

Dine, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978633520 ISBN 13: 9780978633523

Publisher: Bitter Oleander Pr, 2009

Synopsis

Poetry. Art. VAN GOGH IN POEMS, written in Vincent's voice, comments on specific drawings and paintings, while discussing the artist's creative process and state of mind. The book includes 18 images of his drawings from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Renowned art critic John Berger writes about the book: (Dine's) words are strung on (Vincent's) life-line." Poems are divided into sections: Family, Religion, Love, Descent, and Nature.

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About the Author

Carol Dine is the author of two books of poetry and is widely published in literary magazines, including THE BITTER OLEANDER, Blue Mesa Review, Prairie Schooner, and Salamander. Her essays have appeared in the anthologies TO MEND THE WORLD: WOMEN REFLECT ON 9/11 and Living on the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer, and in The Boston Globe. She received the Frances Locke Memorial Award from the Bitter Oleander Press for a poem from her series based on the art of Van Gogh and is the recipient of the Sword of Hope Award from the American Cancer Society for her journal Treatments, published in the Boston Herald. She is a public speaker on surviving breast cancer and has been a poet-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ragdale, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. She teaches at Suffolk University and lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bitter Oleander Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0978633520
• ISBN 13: 9780978633523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 103