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Diego’s Head single work   poetry   "Brother, in dreams I meet you in the hallway in Paris"
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Diego’s Head
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Notes

  • Epigraph: ‘when[ever] I draw or sculpt or paint a head from memory it always turns out to be more or less Diego’s…’ – Giacometti etd in. James Lord, A Giacometti Portrait (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, circa 1964), p. 24.
  • Author's note: In response to Head of Diego by Alberto Giacometti, 1950, Medium: Painted bronze, Dimensions:127.9 x 10.2 x 8.9 cm.

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    y separately published work icon Cordite Poetry Review Ekphrastic vol. 57 no. 1 1 March 2017 10909963 2017 periodical issue

    'In ancient Greece ekphrasis was understood more broadly than in the contemporary world, indicating a complex genealogy for this term that encompasses so much fine poetry as well as many other forms of writing. For the ancients, the best ekphrastic poetry was prized because it presented an often dramatic picture in words, enabling the reader to ‘see’ and respond immediately to what was being described or evoked. Ekphrastic poetry provided a way of allowing readers or listeners to appreciate the imagistic and sometimes narrative content of poetry almost as if they might be looking at the object or objects being written about.' (Source : Editorial introduction)

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