Two Self-Portraits (after Murillo) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798705291731)

TWO SELF-PORTRAITS (AFTER MURILLO) is a forty-two page open-field poem, in the diptych format used in Shute's previous book COMPLEMENTARY ANGLES, inspired by the two surviving self-portraits from the Spanish Baroque painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. composed in San Antonio, Texas, in 2020-2021 under lockdown from COVID-19. Shute's work is rooted in the post-Projective Verse poetics of Blackburn, Berrigan, and Eigner, but completely his own. The title of his upcoming selected poems volume sums up his approach: Junk Sculpture From The New Gilded Age. The poetry echoes his work with such avant-garde musician-composers as Derek Rogers, Mari Rubio (aka More Eaze) and Alfred 23 Harth, while being steeped in the culture and particulars of the present-day Gulf Coast and South-Central Texas. The book's epigraph comes from composer Morton Feldman, "silence is my substitute for counterpoint." A career-spanning Selected Poems will be published by Moloko Print in Germany in late 2021.

Author: Bill Shute
ISBN-13: 9798705291731
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2021
Pages: 54
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.11d