Immagine and Poesia: the Movement in Progress

Poetry. Art. Edited by Stanley H. Barkan with artworks by Alessandro Actis, Gianpiero Actis, R. Gopakumar, Adel Gorgy, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, and Marsha Solomon. "The Irish poet W.B. Yeats said, 'Words alone are certain good.' And they are. But when a poet's work is placed in relation to a painting or a photograph, we can often get an amplifying and expanding of the bird-like track of words on the snow of the page. Indeed, it can be a double blessing: the bird's song and the bird's...
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Poetry. Art. Edited by Stanley H. Barkan with artworks by Alessandro Actis, Gianpiero Actis, R. Gopakumar, Adel Gorgy, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, and Marsha Solomon. "The Irish poet W.B. Yeats said, 'Words alone are certain good.' And they are. But when a poet's work is placed in relation to a painting or a photograph, we can often get an amplifying and expanding of the bird-like track of words on the snow of the page. Indeed, it can be a double blessing: the bird's song and the bird's world. It can be another way of interpreting Dylan Thomas's 'the colour of saying.' Lidia Chiarelli's precise snapshots of poems, beautiful and echoing in themselves, are heightened in this collaboration with artist and photographer. The wedding of her careful words, her poetic voice, to such striking images is a personal endorsement of the universal work she does with IMMAGINE & POESIA."–Peter Thabit Jones