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Allen Hoey
From the introduction:
Hoey's suite of poems-arising in part from a visit to France, to the scenes of Van Gogh's torture-explores the myth in the most dramatic way possible, i.e., through the stream of the painter's consciousness. What a remarkable achievement! Even in our age of great biographical exploits, I know nothing to surpass this recounting of the genius, the inceptive mastermind, of modern art, done in beautifully written poems, which I recommend wholeheartedly to everyone's attention.
Hayden Carruth
Contents
Introduction, by Hayden Carruth
Provençal Light
After the Orchard:
"Souvenir de Mauve"
The Café Terrace
La Maison de Tolérance
The Hospital at Arles
In the Studio at
Saint-Paul-de-Mausole
Le Tambourin
Van Gogh at Auvers Recalls
His Childhood in Brabant
The Furious Eye
The Furious Eye
Taurus in the Arena of Life
(Suite Mingus)
Mind Readers' Convention
in Milano
What Love
Alice's Wonderland (Diane)
Pithecanthropus Erectus
East Coasting
Tijuana Table Dance
West Coast Ghost
Orange Was the Color of
Her Dress Then
Blue Silk / Silk Blues
Playing Time 6'16
Track B-Duet Solo Dancers
I Want To Be Happy
Percussion Discussion
Chelsea Bridge
I Can't Get Started
Passions of a Man
Self Portrait in
Three Colors
Started Melody
Adagio Ma Non Troppo
Interlude (The
Underdog Rising)
All the Things You C#
(God's) Portrait /
Chill of Death
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Reincarnation of a Lovebird
Notes
Author
Allen Hoey was born in Kingston, New York. His first collection, A Fire in the Cold House of Being, was chosen by Galway Kinnell for the 1985 Camden Poetry Award and was published in 1987; What Persists, his second full-length volume of poems, was issued in 1992. Other publications include Transfigured Autumn, a selection of translations of Georg Trakl's poems, and Work the Tongue Could Understand: Sonnets. He currently teaches at Bucks County Community College and makes his home in New Hope, PA. He was 2001 Bucks County Poet Laureate and received a 2002 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship.
ISBN 0-941053-66-0
Provençal Light & other poems is an 88 page
hand-sewn book with spine - $16.00
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