Lightboxes
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Publishing:1st Mar '27
£16.00
This title is due to be published on 1st March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Lightboxes is a book that combines lyrical memoir with research to create a personal archive documenting the author’s life in conversation with the art of other women.
Expanding the ekphrastic tradition, Rochelle Hurt creates adaptations of gallery cards in the form of prose poems responding to visual and performance art made by women. In these poems, personal experience, associative imagery, and biographical details all become entry points for reflection on specific works of art and their creators. Each poem is a small lightbox, an artist’s tool that allows the author to trace the intersections of public and private life, particularly queer women, illuminating shared cultural and historical contexts spanning more than one hundred years. In these vulnerable and playful meditations on gender, sexuality, spectacle, and creation, the reader is invited to witness intimate acts of looking.
"Lightboxes is an aptly named collection of mostly square (don’t be fooled by the word) paragraph containers of heightened language that illuminate works of visual art, the lives and world that are their source, and the acute consciousness examining them. Each ‘lightbox’ exhibits the writer’s associative freedom into revelations about her own life while sharpening perception of a challenging work by a visual artist--most of them modern or contemporary, and yes, all fourty-seven artists are women, and otherwise, entirely unclassifiable. Ekphrastic poetry’s exciting collaboration also includes the reader, who, along with the lightbox poems, has access to their initiating images in the online browser’s museum without walls, one lightbox illuminating the other."
ISBN: 9781961209831
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 454g
74 pages