{"product_id":"for-arts-sake-paperback","title":"For Art's Sake - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCurt G. Curtin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor Art's Sake \u003c\/i\u003eopens to a garden of creation, music, sculpture, painting and dance bloom in Curt Curtin's beautifully crafted poems. In \"after Auden's 'Mus e des Beaux Arts, '\" Icarus transforms to Private Icarus \"blown skyward by a bomb.\" In \"Shaping,\" Michelangelo's David, \"a stone\/with a boy inside\" becomes Curtin's \"a child with a stone inside\" and in \"Bach's Magnificat,\" the canticle sounds from the abandoned interior of Northampton State Hospital while former patients and others listen. \u003ci\u003eFor Art's Sake\u003c\/i\u003e roots us in earth and through art, opens us to joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Susan Roney-O'Brien, educator and author of \u003ci\u003eBone Circle, Legacy of the Last World, \u003c\/i\u003e and several other poetry collections; convener, Thirsty Lab Poetry Reading, Princeton, MA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfoundly imaginative and subtle, tender, alive with colours and tones, sensitive to mood and nuance, coaxing \"unuttering\" art to utter-these are marvellous poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Carey, Emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, literary critic and author of over a dozen books including \u003ci\u003eWhat Good Are the Arts? \u003c\/i\u003eThe loss of one's sight has for poets, often opened the eyes to, as Milton put it, that inner \"second sight\" which then discovers new perspectives about our world. So with Curt Curtin who uses his inner sight to illuminate Old Masters of art and music through a far different lens than we sighted ones, such as this excerpt from his poem \"Chickadee\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...her quick and undulating flight, so like a line of quarter notes in the sky....\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRodger Martin, author of \u003ci\u003e The Battlefield Guide \u003c\/i\u003eand two other poetry collections; teacher, editor, journalist; director of Monadnock Pastoral Poets of New Hampshire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 86\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 18, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710321791039,"sku":"9781950462452","price":25.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/cd01872ae2065fbe41e09f786d71de8f.webp?v=1765054540","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/for-arts-sake-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}