Gala - Softcover

Shapiro, Lynne

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798985592702

Publisher: Solitude Hill Press, 2022

Synopsis

Lynne Shapiro's Gala is a collection of poems that unfolds like a film.

Spliced with flashbacks and asides, the poems move through myriad cultural and poetic registers-from Surrealist tropes to Hollywood movies to Greek mythology-showcasing a unique, feminist voice that echoes the collage aesthetic of the artworks themselves.

Gala is an artist's coming-of-age story, and insists that a woman's voice, in all its wonder and indignation, shall not be erased.

Gala is a 42-page chapbook, perfect bound, 5" x 8" with 8 color illustrations.

About this title

About the Author

Lynne Shapiro's formally accomplished but playfully experimental poems have been published in more than 200 journals and magazines. Based in Hoboken, New Jersey, she has held arts residencies in a number of countries including Morocco, Lithuania, Spain, and the UK. Earlier in her career as a specialist in Dada and Surrealism, and interdisciplinary arts movements from between the Wars, she worked and taught at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New School, and the Parsons School of Design. Once an assistant to Susan Sontag, her time spent working at the Whitney Museum in the 1980s is the starting point for this suite of poems about muses, museums and the bad boys of the art world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solitude Hill Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798985592702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 42