Machine generated contents note: pt. Two Landscape with the Shipwreck of Aeneas. Kafka in Brescia, 1909 -- Dickens in Italy, 1844 -- Mary Woolstonecraft on Putney Bridge, 1795 -- Fitzgerald Tacking Scandal, 1863 -- Brecht Translating Shelley, 1938 -- Kursk Station, 1900 -- Auden and the Imagined Life, 1930 -- Grace Notes, 1966 -- St. Vincents Hospital, 1953 -- Emily Dickinson in Paradise, 1886 -- The Turing Paradox, 1954 -- pt. Two Chroma -- The Night Watch -- View of Delft -- Landscape with the Shipwreck of Aeneas.
Summary:
"The cover of Estill Pollock's Time Signatures portrays a black hole, appropriate for the inescapable gravity of this new volume that draws the reader into his visionary verse - a collection of narrative and ekphrastic poems, and a hybrid of the two, all intended "to offer a storyboard of creative energies." And what a range of creativity we find on offer here, ranging from Dickens and Dickenson to Rembrandt and the Beatles, variously encompassing Pasternak and Alan Turing, Mary Wollstonecraft and Kafka, Auden and Brecht, Rubens and Bruegel. It requires both deep erudition and bold imagination to take on such a range of characters, and Pollock is more than up to the challenge. Often he portrays his subjects at seminal moments in their lives, "instances of personal resolution" that illuminate their humanity, freshly fleshing out these icons and Old Masters. His title evokes both music and physics, and both are present here, in the lyricism of his language and the exquisite precision of his observations. "Whether by turns a world defined by the sweep of brushstroke vistas or in the maze of pickstitch self-absorption," Pollock assures us that "everything here is real. Some of it might even be true.""-- Provided by publisher.
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