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Art Lessons explores the connections between visual art and the written word. By incorporating the words and insights from Vincent Van Gogh's intuitive work and life, Ann Iverson's poetry reveals her keen insights into the mysterious interplay between art and poetry, happiness and sadness, God and nature.
Price: $15.95
Pages: 72
Publisher: Holy Cow! Press
Imprint: Holy Cow! Press
Publication Date:
08 November 2011
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780983325420
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Ann Iverson is the author of Come Now to the Window (2003) by the Laurel Poetry Collective and Definite Space (2007) by Holy Cow! Press. She is a graduate of both the MALS and the MFA programs at Hamline University. Her poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals and venues including Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. As a visual artist, she enjoys the integrated relationship between the visual image and the written image. Her art work has been featured in two art exhibits as well as at the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital. Ann has served in education in some capacity for over 25 years and currently serves as a Dean of Learning at Dunwoody College. She lives in East Bethel, MN with her husband.
Lesson ONE
Sunflowers 7
Achilles' Heel 8
Day Lily and The Sparrow 9
The Great Blue Heron 10
Storm 11
To Know a Snow Angel 12
Theory on Color 13
Alms 14
The Scattering of Ashes 15
Afraid to Sleep and Then Afraid to Wake 16
Old Language, New Light 17
Landmarks 18
A Happy Ending 22
The Poppies 25
Drama 26
Love 27
LESSON TWO
Myopic Vision 29
Wish for Childhood 30
Revision 31
Into All Things We Enter 32
Solstice Nearing 33
At the Heart of the Garden 34
The Resurrection 35
The Illuminated Bible 36
While Painting Ars Poetica in Winter 37
I Have Known for Years 38
Ladders to the Sun 39
Searching 40
In Medias Res 41
LESSON THREE
The First Vincent Van Gogh 43
Art 44
God to Adam 45
All These Butterflies 46
Spare 47
At the Walter Reed Medical Facility 51
War Poem 52
At the Foot of the Ozark Mountains 53
Learning How to Paint the Clouds 54
I’m Sorry 55
Sometimes 56
Garden Reverie W/Miss Bishop 57
Happiness 58
After Painting 60
Sometimes She Gets So Happy 61
Moons of Jupiter 62
Ovulating at Forty Eight 63
Step Mother 64
The Sixth Season 65
Together in the World 66
Last lesson
Wheat Field With Crows 68
The Four O’clock Hour 69
In Every Minutes of Every Hour of Every Day 70
Reckless 71
Season 72
We Buried Her in the Field 73
November in the Country 74
The Deposition of Dreams 75
Autumnal 76
Bridges 77
Flowers for Daddy 78
Tonight I Wish for Deer 79
Art Lesson 80
One Life 81
Today the World is Beautiful 82
Art Lesson II 83
Sunflowers 7
Achilles' Heel 8
Day Lily and The Sparrow 9
The Great Blue Heron 10
Storm 11
To Know a Snow Angel 12
Theory on Color 13
Alms 14
The Scattering of Ashes 15
Afraid to Sleep and Then Afraid to Wake 16
Old Language, New Light 17
Landmarks 18
A Happy Ending 22
The Poppies 25
Drama 26
Love 27
LESSON TWO
Myopic Vision 29
Wish for Childhood 30
Revision 31
Into All Things We Enter 32
Solstice Nearing 33
At the Heart of the Garden 34
The Resurrection 35
The Illuminated Bible 36
While Painting Ars Poetica in Winter 37
I Have Known for Years 38
Ladders to the Sun 39
Searching 40
In Medias Res 41
LESSON THREE
The First Vincent Van Gogh 43
Art 44
God to Adam 45
All These Butterflies 46
Spare 47
At the Walter Reed Medical Facility 51
War Poem 52
At the Foot of the Ozark Mountains 53
Learning How to Paint the Clouds 54
I’m Sorry 55
Sometimes 56
Garden Reverie W/Miss Bishop 57
Happiness 58
After Painting 60
Sometimes She Gets So Happy 61
Moons of Jupiter 62
Ovulating at Forty Eight 63
Step Mother 64
The Sixth Season 65
Together in the World 66
Last lesson
Wheat Field With Crows 68
The Four O’clock Hour 69
In Every Minutes of Every Hour of Every Day 70
Reckless 71
Season 72
We Buried Her in the Field 73
November in the Country 74
The Deposition of Dreams 75
Autumnal 76
Bridges 77
Flowers for Daddy 78
Tonight I Wish for Deer 79
Art Lesson 80
One Life 81
Today the World is Beautiful 82
Art Lesson II 83