“Giacometti” Revisited

On Monday, when discussing Joanna Preston’s award-winning Tumble, I mentioned how the opening poem, Female, Nude, is ekphrastic, i.e. it was written in response to a work of art. In the case of Female, nude, the artwork was a Man Ray painting, Ingres Violin.

I also mentioned that the poem was Joanna’s contribution to an ekphrastic poems series that I curated in 2013.

So today, while the ekphrastic theme is fresh, I’m refeaturing Giacometti, my own contribution to the same series.

Giacometti was ...