{"product_id":"the-gauguin-answer-sheet-dennis-finnell-9780820322933","title":"The Gauguin Answer Sheet: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe painting Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? by Paul Gauguin, intended as the painter's final artistic testimony, is the inspiration and framework for this book. In one way, \u003ci\u003eThe Gauguin Answer Sheet\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the intricate details of the painting and offers its lush Tahitian landscape and characters--a black dog, a pair of conspirators, a shy woman, a pleading goddess, and a crouching mummy, among many others. In another sense, Dennis Finnell deeply probes the underlying implications--and personal associations--the painting offers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poem's own questions, suggested by those in the painting's title, are concerned with origins, identities, and futures--of the poet and others. Finnell reflects on the plight of the characters portrayed in Gauguin's painting and imagines their thoughts and feelings about life in the world outside. Along with his ruminations on these imagined characters, Finnell visits his own family history, reflecting on the lives of earlier generations, to affirm the shared nature of each individual's origins and identities. Through his poetry, time and space, painting and history, and imagination and reality interconnect and offer an unusually imaginative, surprising work of art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dennis Finnell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820322938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820322933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.54w x 0.25d","brand":"Dennis Finnell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47520299548927,"sku":"9780820322933","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d297630e-cf66-4d0a-8302-3fa62f8a3fbf.jpg?v=1762884757","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-gauguin-answer-sheet-dennis-finnell-9780820322933","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}