Van Gogh in Poems

by Carol Dine

Poetry. Art. VAN GOGH IN POEMS, written in Vincent's voice, comments on specific drawings and paintings, while discussing the artist's creative process and state of mind. The book includes 18 images of his drawings from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Renowned art critic John Berger writes about the (Dine's) words are strung on (Vincent's) life-line." Poems are divided into Family, Religion, Love, Descent, and Nature.

107 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Carol Dine’s poems and personal narratives reflect her passion for visual art. She is the author of four books of poetry, Naming the Sky, Trying to Understand the Lunar Eclipse, Van Gogh in Poems, and Orange Night. Her awards include the American Cancer Society’s “Sword of Hope” Award for her journal, “Treatments,” published in the Boston Globe. She expanded the journal into a memoir, Places in the Bone, now in a new edition.

Carol’s poems have appeared in several anthologies, including Liberation: New Works on Freedom, Poems Against War, Forgotten Women, and Wondering the Alphabet, and in such literary magazines as Bitter Oleander, Lilith, Salamander, Pangyrus, and Minerva Rising.

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