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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790293803321

Autore

Gibson Stephen <1948->

Titolo

Paradise [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / by Stephen Gibson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, : University of Arkansas Press, 2011

ISBN

1-61075-479-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (74 p.)

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Paradise

Hell

American poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Duomo and baptistery, Florence -- Framed photo of Venice overlooking St. Mark's Square -- Alberto Giacometti's Woman with her throat cut -- Memorial sonnet -- Ghosts -- Masks -- Memento mori -- Ghazal -- Ghazal on a panel of an early Renaissance triptych -- Daedalus presents the artificial cow to Pasiphae -- Sonnet for Auden -- Altichiero's frescoes : the St. Catherine cycle -- At a cafe in Venice -- Details from Guido Reni's Slaughter of the innocents -- Masaccio's The expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden -- Piazza Shelley -- Life study -- Head games -- Almonds -- Fur -- Brunelleschi's dome -- Faces -- Ghazal -- Nighthawks -- Ghazal on NYPD crime scene photos -- Ghazal on a 1906 murder victim photo -- Ghazal on a 1914 NYC crime scene photo -- Ghazal on a 1910 NYC crime scene photo -- Ghazal on a 1912 NYC crime scene photo -- Ghazal on a 1916 Brooklyn murder scene photo -- Ghazal on a 1902 NYC crime scene photo -- Ghazal on a 1915 NYC crime scene photo of a couple -- Ghazal on a 1909 NYC crime scene photo -- Ghazal on a 1908 murder victim photo -- Ghazal on a 1918 murder victim photo -- Ghazal for pretty women in Venice -- Impromptu on Titian's Annunciation -- Landscape with the rape of Europa -- Ghosts.

Sommario/riassunto

<div>Stephen Gibson is the author of three previous poetry collections, <i>Frescoes</i> (2009 poetry book prize from Lost Horse Press), <i>Masaccio's Expulsion</i> (2006 poetry book prize from



MARGIE/IntuiT House), and <i>Rorschach Art</i> (Red Hen Press). He is a past Individual Artist Fellowship recipient from the State of Florida in both poetry and fiction.</div>