December 2015
Robbi Nester
rknester@gmail.com
rknester@gmail.com
To all appearances, I inherited my poetic ability from my maternal great-uncle, the WWI British poet, Isaac Rosenberg. Rosenberg was a painter as well as a poet. While I didn't inherit his chops in visual art, I have always been drawn to ekphrastic poetry, writing about works of art, generally visual, but sometimes including other media as well. Following this inclination, I have completed a manuscript of ekphrastic collaborations with mostly visual artists, Together, which is now seeking a home. It contains about 90 pages, about 35 of which consist of mostly color plates. If you have any ideas about publishers who might be interested and who have the graphic know-how such a project entails, please let me know.
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Chasing Away The Blue Devils after the painting by Mary Boxley Bullington |
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The title suggests
cheerful optimism, but the image has other ideas. A broken figure appeals to a tree lifeless as a telephone pole. Above him, a haloed angel or demon, extends its arms, exorcising or beckoning ill fortune. The red sun burns, yet elsewhere, glows in darkness, multiplies in an alien sky. Here I see all weathers at once, all times of day. This ambiguity seems fitting. I am certain an angel is a fearsome thing, like a jaguar, with its hard amber eyes, flight feathers sharp as daggers. What makes the sea sublime but the knowledge that somewhere, a wave is rising bigger than a building, ready to carry away everything in its path? |
©2015 Robbi Nester