{"product_id":"frida-kahlo-in-fort-lauderdale-poems-paperback","title":"Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen Gibson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReimagining the iconic Mexican artist's life and relationships, Stephen Gibson's \u003cem\u003eFrida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale\u003c\/em\u003e explores Kahlo's passions and pains through vivid persona poems. Realized entirely in a modified triolet form, the collection is essentially an ekphrastic epic inspired by the paintings, photos, and personal effects on display in a 2015 Fort Lauderdale exhibition. Gibson probes the artist's inner world, giving voice to Kahlo's desires, anguish, and defiant spirit. He conjures her crippling injuries from a bus accident, her tumultuous marriage to Diego Rivera, and her affairs with Leon Trotsky and others, all filtered through her fervent art. This innovative collection brings Frida Kahlo's singular vision to life in visceral contemporary verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eFRIDA KAHLO IN FORT LAUDERDALE\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book of incantations Stephen Gibson says, \"What one loathes and desires can be the same thing,\" and those two strands weave through these poems like a double helix of beauty and repulsion. The trolley accident that impaled Kahlo comes up over and over, and each time there is a new layer added to the story in much the same way a painter adds layers to a portrait. These are poems, but they are also music and paintings that give the lucky reader a luminous vision of this woman who forged a life of beauty out of the wreck of her pain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Barbara Hamby, author of \u003cem\u003eHoloholo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale\u003c\/em\u003e is composed entirely of triolets about the artist and her paintings. The overall effect is akin to pointillism: the collection's fifty-seven triolets blend in the reader's consciousness much as the tiny dots of various colors in a pointillist painting blend in a viewer's eye to form a coherent image. In this case, the image is of Frida Kahlo, the renowned Mexican painter known for her many portraits and self-portraits. Gibson-brilliant as always in his mastery of formal poetic structures-has crafted a portrait of Kahlo that reads as a single long poem, and yet resonates in the mind as something painterly, a shimmering, vibrant portrait of an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Edward Falco, author of \u003cem\u003eWolf Moon Blood Moon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese punchy little poems rat-a-tat the reader like a boxer's jab-cross-uppercut. The immediate subject is Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's bughouse marriage, but this is really a book for everyone. Even the happiest of married couples will react with some version of been there, done that. Divorce lawyers will get dollar signs in their eyes. Young singles will find \u003cem\u003eFrida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale\u003c\/em\u003e a useful road map through the minefield of conjugal bliss. Mainly, though, these poems are for poetry lovers. They're smart, they're funny, and they sting like hell-they sting you in a way that makes you say, sting me again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- David Kirby, author of \u003cem\u003eHelp Me, Information\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Gibson's seventh poetry collection \u003cem\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e won the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, selected by Billy Collins. Earlier collections have won the Donald Justice Prize, Idaho Prize for Poetry, and the MARGIE Book Prize. His poems have appeared in such journals as \u003cem\u003eAble Muse, American Arts Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Journal of Poetry, Boulevard, Cimarron Review, Copper Nickel, Court Green\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eEvansville Review, EPOCH, Field\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eGettysburg Review\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eHudson Review\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eIowa Review, J Journal, Measure, New England Review, Notre Dame Review\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eParis Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Quiddity, Raleigh Review, Salamander\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eSewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eSouthern Review, Southwest Review, Upstreet\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eYale Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 76\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 16, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51775017681184,"sku":"9781773490922","price":24.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/65d196eb7f50107d79bcbf1fbc9b4612.webp?v=1780457429","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/frida-kahlo-in-fort-lauderdale-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}