Showing posts with label Midwest. Show all posts
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Monday, March 10, 2014

Fantastic Ekphrastic


 John Coltrane plays jazz. Jazz is cool. John Coltrane is cool.

That perhaps makes Harper cool, too. Harper's poems, like several poems from previous weeks as well as many, many, many poems in existence, are influenced by music.

Art influences art quite often. Graham uses visual art as an inspiration for her writing. Klimt was part of the art nouveau movement, which rebelled against traditionalist styles. His most famous painting is probably "The Kiss." Graham uses words instead of paint to convey similar ideas that the visual artist have.

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