A collection of poems which imagine well-known works of art as if they had been created by different artists than the ones who made them famous.
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Robert Wynne's second full-length collection terrifies and consoles. It is a fever dream s guided tour, a museum the reader wanders at his or her own illuminating, delighted risk. In inspired, re-imagined ekphrastic collisions, Wynne marries our hopes for safety, and for true connection with what we too often only observe, to the most dangerous, isolating realities of self and world. Dark, whimsical, disarming, disturbing these poems are a revelation. --Dorothy Barresi
Magical things happen in Robert Wynne's Museum of Parallel Art when its narrator, acting as a museum docent, brings to life the back story and thematic poignancy of each painting on display, and, in an unexpected twist, also interprets each one through the unique psyche and vision of an ingeniously chosen guest-artist e.g., Norman Rockwell does Goya s Saturn Devouring One of His Children. The project s concept is ingenious but the poetry s even better: clean, subtle, authoritative, and inspired. It could be a textbook on ekphrastic art. --Jack Myers, 2003-2004 Texas Poet Laureate
Robert Wynne's Museum of Parallel Art is a sharply written, wonderfully imagined collection of poems. To think that visual art could invite such delicious speculations. The sheer variety of tones and perspectives found in Wynne s work are good fuel for the heart, dazzling remedies for the hum-drum ho-hum so common in our reading lives. Few poets feature his capacity to entertain human desperation and comedy so convincingly and sometimes within the same piece! If we read poetry to extend our vision, to see what is often missed, then this is a must-have, gotta-get book of poems. --Tim Seibles
Magical things happen in Robert Wynne's Museum of Parallel Art when its narrator, acting as a museum docent, brings to life the back story and thematic poignancy of each painting on display, and, in an unexpected twist, also interprets each one through the unique psyche and vision of an ingeniously chosen guest-artist e.g., Norman Rockwell does Goya s Saturn Devouring One of His Children. The project s concept is ingenious but the poetry s even better: clean, subtle, authoritative, and inspired. It could be a textbook on ekphrastic art. --Jack Myers, 2003-2004 Texas Poet Laureate
Robert Wynne's Museum of Parallel Art is a sharply written, wonderfully imagined collection of poems. To think that visual art could invite such delicious speculations. The sheer variety of tones and perspectives found in Wynne s work are good fuel for the heart, dazzling remedies for the hum-drum ho-hum so common in our reading lives. Few poets feature his capacity to entertain human desperation and comedy so convincingly and sometimes within the same piece! If we read poetry to extend our vision, to see what is often missed, then this is a must-have, gotta-get book of poems. --Tim Seibles
About the Author
Robert Wynne earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. He is the co-editor and publisher of Cider Press Review. He is the author of 6 chapbooks, and 2 full-length collections of poetry. The recipient of the Poetry Society of Texas 2006 Eakin Book Award, his first full-length collection, Remembering How to Sleep, was published in 2007. He has won numerous other awards, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been published in many journals, including Solo, Two Rivers Review, Poetry International, Trestle Creek Review, Rattle, Bayou Review, DFW Poetry Review, and in several poetry anthologies in North America, England and India. He lives in Burleson, TX, with his wife and daughter.
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Robert Wynne is a consummate craftsman. He can write in any form (and has been known to make some up), or on any theme, and produce beautiful, clear, entertaining poetry.
Museum of Parallel Art is no exception. In this collection of poems about ekphrastic art, Wynne describes, one by one, pieces of art which do not exist, but, Wynne makes clear, should. Wynne imagines a world in which Currier and Ives painted "The Scream," Anne Geddes created "Guernica," and Dr. Seuss gave his interpretation of "Madonna and Child" (to list just the first three pieces). Wynne doesn't just conceive of this artistic marvels, he describes them so completely we're convinced he has seen them in some museum somewhere. Take his description of "Matt Groening's Creation of Adam": He reaches for the First Beer in God's hand, taking no notice of the fact that God is nothing but a hand: blue foam rubber covered in red words, and pointing at the first man. The original slogan, "We're #1", has been crossed out and replaced with "I created stupid." God's a joker. Through these poems, Wynne reveals much about the relationship between artist and art, and between both and the viewer. He also demonstrates the unlimited spread of the human imagination. Read it and be amazed.
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