The Guest from the Future (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393316933)

It represents what Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Laureate in literature, called art's power of "redress." Stallworthy's poems evoke women survivors; the poet Anna Akhmatova; the painter Francoise Cilot, Picasso's lover; a survivor of the siege of Stalingrad; and a woman who escaped war torn Poland, carrying in her bedding-roll a coverlet she was embroidering for her fiance and herself. This refugee's story bears a curious inverse relationship with that of the "Lady of Shalott" Tennyson's patrician artist in her tower, forced to choose between the world and its "shadows" in her mirror opts for the world and is destroyed; Stallworthy's peasant artist engages with the world and is sustained by an art that reflects that engagement.

Author: Jon Stallworthy,Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
ISBN-10: 0393316939
ISBN-13: 9780393316933
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1997
Pages: 70
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.55w x 0.24d