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Michelangelo's Seizure

  • ISBN-13: 9780252074202
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Steve Gehrke
  • Price: AUD $34.99
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  • Local release date: 14/08/2007
  • Format: Paperback 88 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]
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In Michelangelo's Seizure, Steve Gehrke seizes the lives of several classic and contemporary painters--from Caravaggio and Magritte to Francis Bacon and Jackson Pollock--to demonstrate how these artists transformed physical, psychological, and political suffering into art. Mirroring the brushstrokes in long, metaphor-laden sentences, Gehrke moves freely through the canvas, into and out of the artists' lives, into the public realm, into history, to capture the way the creative mind can transform even the most violent surroundings--a prison cell, a battlefield, a madhouse--into a masterpiece.''with the witchcraft hushed inside his veins, onto the flayed skin of St. Bartholomew, crumpled, fierce, with two dead bugs crushed into the paint, like that bit of terror, he would think, sealed inside of everything He makes.'' --From the title poem ''Michelangelo's Seizure''
''Steve Gehrke has delivered up a masterpiece of masterpieces, a book made up entirely of ekphrastic poems which is altogether unsettling, unfamiliar, uncanny, powerful. The secret of Gehrke's method is the force of his gaze, which within the dramatic illusion of such poetry is a stand-in for the mind; in these poems artworks melt under the pressure of the writer's consciousness of them, and products are re-rendered as pure process.'' T. R . Hummer, author of The Infinity Sessions
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