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Reckitt´s Blue
John Wilkinson
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Description for Reckitt´s Blue
Paperback. An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard's "L'escarpolette", or "The Swing", is often reproduced, and its foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper midswing is widely familiar. This book explores that scene in a long poem that engages with the image of the flying slipper, and presents two other sequences of poems based on paintings. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 133 x 8. Weight in Grams: 150.
An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard's "L'escarpolette", or "The Swing", is often reproduced, and its famous foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper midswing is widely familiar. In "Reckitt's Blue", John Wilkinson explores that well-known scene in a long poem that engages with the image of the flying slipper, and he also presents two other sequences of poems based on paintings. Though born out of visual encounters with art, these poems also examine weaponry and domestic and ritual objects - artifacts that evoke a violent encounter. Here, Wilkinson's concentrated lines evidence what the critic Simon Jarvis has ... Read more
An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard's "L'escarpolette", or "The Swing", is often reproduced, and its famous foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper midswing is widely familiar. In "Reckitt's Blue", John Wilkinson explores that well-known scene in a long poem that engages with the image of the flying slipper, and he also presents two other sequences of poems based on paintings. Though born out of visual encounters with art, these poems also examine weaponry and domestic and ritual objects - artifacts that evoke a violent encounter. Here, Wilkinson's concentrated lines evidence what the critic Simon Jarvis has ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857420923
SKU
V9780857420923
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About John Wilkinson
John Wilkinson is an English poet living in Chicago, where he has been professor of practice in the arts at the University of Chicago. He has published ten major collections of poetry, including Down to Earth, and a volume of criticism entitled The Lyric Touch.
Reviews for Reckitt´s Blue
"John Wilkinson's taut, precise poems, in which lyric grace and ethical urgency move together but never comfortably mix, amount to one of the most significant bodies of work in contemporary poetry." (Patrick McGuinness)"