Review
Aorta, Keeping The Whitecaps White
Climbing Out Through The Mummy
Come, Endure
Conspirators, Speaking
From, From...
Her Kiss Evaporates His Testimony Calcifies
Interlude: For The Shy One
Interlude: Mary K On You And The Omnivore
Interlude: The Shy One On Skin And Light
Out Of Mouths
Scratch, Sniff
Some Of You Look Into This, My Mouth
Start Our Eyes
Ultimata
A Word Dressed In Fog
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Climbing Out Through The Mummy
Come, Endure
Conspirators, Speaking
From, From...
Her Kiss Evaporates His Testimony Calcifies
Interlude: For The Shy One
Interlude: Mary K On You And The Omnivore
Interlude: The Shy One On Skin And Light
Out Of Mouths
Scratch, Sniff
Some Of You Look Into This, My Mouth
Start Our Eyes
Ultimata
A Word Dressed In Fog
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Product Description
The painting Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? by Paul Gauguin, intended as the painter's final artistic testimony, is the inspiration and framework for this book. In one way, The Gauguin Answer Sheet focuses on the intricate details of the painting and offers its lush Tahitian landscape and characters--a black dog, a pair of conspirators, a shy woman, a pleading goddess, and a crouching mummy, among many others. In another sense, Dennis Finnell deeply probes the underlying implications--and personal associations--the painting offers.
The poem's own questions, suggested by those in the painting's title, are concerned with origins, identities, and futures--of the poet and others. Finnell reflects on the plight of the characters portrayed in Gauguin's painting and imagines their thoughts and feelings about life in the world outside. Along with his ruminations on these imagined characters, Finnell visits his own family history, reflecting on the lives of earlier generations, to affirm the shared nature of each individual's origins and identities. Through his poetry, time and space, painting and history, and imagination and reality interconnect and offer an unusually imaginative, surprising work of art.
