Description
Jane Duran's new book of two striking sequences takes readers into other worlds - 'gridlines', in which the life and paintings of Agnes Martin are interwoven, and 'miniatures of al-Andalus' inspired by the illuminated Cantigas de Santa Maria and the art and artefacts of Islamic Iberia. The simple gridlines of Duran's couplets recall Martin's square canvasses, her precisely rendered grids and luminous stripes. Responding to individual images and to Martin's own biography, discovering lovely breaths of life entering the 'grey rectangles', the poems' intricate interlockings and brilliant images seem almost to escape the poems' formal enclosures, so that Martin's 'The Peach 1964', 'gave me back // only beige, graphite, / ink, sanity // and orchard after orchard'.
About the Author
Jane Duran was born in Cuba and raised in the USA and Chile. Selections of her poems have appeared in Poetry Introduction 8 (Faber 1993), Making for Planet Alice (Bloodaxe 1997), and Modern Women Poets (Bloodaxe 2005). In 1995 Enitharmon Press published her first full collection, Breathe Now, Breathe which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Enitharmon also published four subsequent collections, including Coastal (2005) and Graceline (2010) which were both PBS Recommendations. Together with Gloria Garcia Lorca, she translated Lorca's Gypsy Ballads (Enitharmon, 2011) and his Sonnets of Dark Love and The Tamarit Divan (Enitharmon, 2017). She received a Cholmondeley Award in 2005.
Reviews
'Duran twists her hybrid colours into rich, sensual, and perfectly controlled statements of memory and loss... A poet to rejoice in.' - The Observer; 'Full of beauty and perception, these unusually supple responses seem to reach, in their open-endedness, for the infinite. Jane Duran shows a deep knowledge and engagement with the terrain in both complementary sequences. These are exquisite poems: 'Each one, clarified / true in miniature'.' - Moniza Alvi
Book Information
ISBN 9781800171596
Author Jane Duran
Format Paperback
Page Count 104
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 9mm
About the Author
Jane Duran was born in Cuba and raised in the USA and Chile. Selections of her poems have appeared in Poetry Introduction 8 (Faber 1993), Making for Planet Alice (Bloodaxe 1997), and Modern Women Poets (Bloodaxe 2005). In 1995 Enitharmon Press published her first full collection, Breathe Now, Breathe which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Enitharmon also published four subsequent collections, including Coastal (2005) and Graceline (2010) which were both PBS Recommendations. Together with Gloria Garcia Lorca, she translated Lorca's Gypsy Ballads (Enitharmon, 2011) and his Sonnets of Dark Love and The Tamarit Divan (Enitharmon, 2017). She received a Cholmondeley Award in 2005.
Reviews
'Duran twists her hybrid colours into rich, sensual, and perfectly controlled statements of memory and loss... A poet to rejoice in.' - The Observer; 'Full of beauty and perception, these unusually supple responses seem to reach, in their open-endedness, for the infinite. Jane Duran shows a deep knowledge and engagement with the terrain in both complementary sequences. These are exquisite poems: 'Each one, clarified / true in miniature'.' - Moniza Alvi
Book Information
ISBN 9781800171596
Author Jane Duran
Format Paperback
Page Count 104
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 9mm
