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by: Peter Klappert
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780981009117
ISBN: 0981009115
Label: Six Gallery Press
Manufacturer: Six Gallery Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 102
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: Six Gallery Press
Studio: Six Gallery Press
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Product Description:
Peter Klappert s 1975 collection of poems Circular Stairs, Distress in the Mirrors, available again for the first time in two decades. In this collection, the artist Michael Hafftka created a new drawing for each of the poems. In twenty tightly wound, intensely inward poems, Circular Stairs explores relationships of self and Shadow, ego and inner antagonist, creator and created. Compared with much of Klappert s other work, the poems here are spare, elegiac, and by turns, lyric, narrative and dramatic. In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell William Blake says, Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human Existence. In this collection the psyche often finds itself imprisoned in tension-filled stasis, struggling to progress. Michael Hafftka responds to each poem with a drawing expressing his relationship with the work. The linguistic and psychological subtlety of the poems inspires the nervous and enigmatic intensity of the drawings, transforming the emotional into the figurative. The darkness of Klappert's work is never simplistically pessimistic or cynical.... [He] recognizes that to be fully human aware of one's own potentialities for good and evil, capable of real relationships with others, and at home in one's environment is an intensely difficult task, one at which we are apt both as individuals and as a society to fail. Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Poets Since 1945
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