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The Door to Colour
Myra Schneider
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Description for The Door to Colour
Paperback. Myra Schneider's new collection brings a fresh sense of reality to some well-known images. Colour is the keynote of the book, moving through Matisse, Hockney, Chagall; sound too, in Mahler and Beethoven. Often we find skin-deep assumptions turned around. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 217 x 7. Weight in Grams: 110.
Myra Schneider's new collection brings a fresh sense of reality to some well-known images. Colour is the keynote of the book, moving through Matisse, Hockney, Chagall; sound too, in Mahler and Beethoven. Often we find skin-deep assumptions turned around: the gold of ancient Crete is not its jewellery but olives; a postbox's bright exterior conceals menace; a major twentieth-century artist only started painting by chance at the age of twenty; and the long poem 'Minotaur' makes it clear that the Minotaur is no monster, Theseus no hero. Myra Schneider's tenth full collection is 'worth getting hold of if you like ... Read more
Myra Schneider's new collection brings a fresh sense of reality to some well-known images. Colour is the keynote of the book, moving through Matisse, Hockney, Chagall; sound too, in Mahler and Beethoven. Often we find skin-deep assumptions turned around: the gold of ancient Crete is not its jewellery but olives; a postbox's bright exterior conceals menace; a major twentieth-century artist only started painting by chance at the age of twenty; and the long poem 'Minotaur' makes it clear that the Minotaur is no monster, Theseus no hero. Myra Schneider's tenth full collection is 'worth getting hold of if you like ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Enitharmon Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
111 g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907587511
SKU
V9781907587511
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Ref
99-43
About Myra Schneider
Myra Schneider spent most of her childhood on the Firth of Clyde, lived in Chichester during her teens and has lived in London since she went to University. She is the author of four poetry collections by Littlewood Press, three novels for children and teenagers by Heinemann and five collections by Enitharmon Press. Her poem 'Goulash' was shortlisted for ... Read more
Reviews for The Door to Colour
"Myra Schneider has become an essential poet. Nobody else manages her fusion of the domestic and the global as well. Nobody else manages her fusion of the sensual and the spiritual as well."
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