Tiepolo's Hound
From the Nobel laureate, a book-length poem on two educations in painting, a century apartBetween me and Venice the thigh of a hound;my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write,paused on a step of this couplet, I have never foundits image again, a hound in astounding light.Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro--a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris--and the poet himself, who longs to rediscover a detail--a slash of pink on the inner thigh / of a white hound--of a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit from St. Lucia to New York.…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4668-8048-1
- EAN: 9781466880481
- Produktnummer: 22473591
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'022 KB
- Abbildungen: Includes 26 watercolor illustrations throughout
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