'I have said, I think, that these poems are interpretations of what the poet sees on the canvas. I add that they are imaginary biographies, as true as anything that actually happened: they are biographies written the other way around, from the evidence of the art.'-from the Introduction by Theodora Goss
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Visions from the darkest galleries of the artistic soul.
In this cycle of eleven poems, Rhysling Award-winning poet Mike Allen takes a dark fantastic look at such 19th and 20th century masters as Chagall, Georgio de Chirico, Escher, Goya, Paul Klee, Joan Miro, Georgia O'Keeffe, Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Toulouse-Latrec and Yves Tanguy. The poems can be taken as surreal, secret histories of life, death and art, or as metaphors for the destructive power of creativity. The book includes an introduction by World Fantasy Award nominee Theodora Goss and an afterward by the author citing the paintings that inspired the poems.
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