Still life with two dead peacocks and a girl
Subtitle: poems
By: Diane Seuss
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781555978068
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Authors and artists; American poetry; Painting; Still-life in art; Themes, motives; Poetry; Ekphrasis
Description: This volume of poetry takes its title from Rembrandt's painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence, and the viewer's troubled gaze. The collection shatters the notion of a still life, and presents the painting in pieces. With invention and irreverence, the poems escape their gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class, and luxury. Details from this gallery of lives in shards hide more than they reveal, like fragmented memories, waiting until they are reassembled into a whole.