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Response to Emily Dickinson's works.
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Poetry inspires art, art inspires poetry: a double ekphrasis squares the circle.
The Heart’s Many Doors: American Poets Respond to Metka Krašovec’s Images Responding to Emily Dickinson © 2017 by Wings Press. All rights revert to the artist and individual authors. Cover image: “Triple Mirror” © 1992 by Metka Krašovec. Painting, 145 x 160 cm. Interior drawings, 2010-12, by Metka Krašovec. Drawings 12.5 x 18 cm. All art used by permission of the artist. ISBN: 978-1-60940-536-6 (paperback original) E-books: ePub: 978-1-60940-537-3 Mobipocket/Kindle: 978-1-60940-538-0 Library PDF: 978-1-60940-539-7 Wings Press 627 E. Guenther San Antonio, Texas 78210 Phone/fax: (210) 271-7805 On-line catalogue and ordering: www.wingspress.com Wings Press books are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group www.ipgbook.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Jackson, Richard, 1946- editor. | Kraésovec, Metka, 1941- illustrator. Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Title: The heart’s many doors : American poets respond to Metka Kraésovec’s images responding to Emily Dickinson / edited by Richard Jackson. Description: San Antonio, Texas : Wings Press, 2017. Identifiers: LCCN 2016043986 | ISBN 9781609405366 (paperback) | ISBN 9781609405380 (kindle/mobipocket ebook) | ISBN 9781609405397 (library pdf) | ISBN 9781609405373 (ePub) Subjects: LCSH: American poetry--21st century. | Art--Poetry. | Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) | Kraésovec, Metka, 1941--Poetry. | Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886--Poetry. | BISAC: POETRY / American / General. | ART / European. LCC PS595.A75 H44 2017 DDC 811/.6080357--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016043986
CONTENTS Introduction THE HEART HAS MANY DOORS Ralph Angel Mark Halliday Mary Ruefle Barbara Siegel Carlson Olivia Townsend Richard Jackson Leslie Ullman Mark Cox Nance Van Winckel A WOUNDED DEER LEAPS HIGHEST Ralph Angel Dara Wier David Rivard Phillis Levin Dean Young Leslie Ullman Richard Jackson HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS Ralph Angel Nance Van Winckel William Olsen Nancy Eimers David Rivard Leslie Ullman Hunter Hobbs
Richard Jackson Laura Behr THERE IS A SOLITUDE OF SPACE Ralph Angel David Rivard William Olsen Cathy Wagner Richard Jackson Earl Sherman Braggs William Pitt Root Emilia Phillips Christopher Buckley Trenna Sharpe THE HEART ASKS PLEASURE FIRST Ralph Angel Mark Jarman Pam Uschuk Richard Jackson Leslie Ullman Alex Martin Susan Thomas LOVE THOU ART VEILED Ralph Angel Dean Young Richard Jackson Alex Martin Danielle Hanson Ann Manning Cody Taylor
NO RACK CAN TORTURE ME Ralph Angel Dara Wier Richard Jackson Leslie Ullman Chad Prevost Brittney Carneal Bryce Milligan I’VE SEEN A DYING EYE Ralph Angel Chad Prevost Chris Merrill Richard Jackson Chad Prevost Matthew Zapruder Pam Uschuk Bryce Milligan I MEASURE EVERY GRIEF I MEET Ralph Angel David Wojahn Earl Sherman Braggs Bradley Paul David Rivard Deborah Brown Richard Jackson Leslie Ullman SAFE DESPAIR IS IT THAT RAVES Ralph Angel Mark Halliday
William Olen Richard Jackson Pam Uschuk Josh Mensch Ata Moharerri THEY SAY THAT TIME ASSUAGES Ralph Angel Dara Wier Leslie Ullman J Allyn Rosser Bradley Paul Bill Rasmovicz Richard Jackson Jordan Culotta About the Artist About the Editor About the Contributors
Metka Tomaž Šalamun A fragment of a living heart is not like a flat Wafer, and not as white. Through a clear glass I am watching limousines. About lacquer! No mas! No mas! The most fragile springs live to see The day, even when blessed with the sea’s saltiness. And fish who use enormous Waters just to be able to swim: Snow melts only in the mountains. The holy spirit springs from there To gather waiting for you, that water which will lead him to the sea. Translated by Richard Jackson
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