Livres d'artistes, poets' lives

The verbal and the visual interpenetrate in this remarkable livre dartiste: details from illustrations recur as shadows on word-lined pages, and textual fragments insinuate themselves into the images, as in the enthralling colour foldout centrepiece, "How God Talks in His Sleep" A differen...

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Published inCanadian Literature no. 234; pp. 178 - 179
Main Author Majer, Krzysztof
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Vancouver The University of British Columbia - Canadian Literature 22.09.2017
Pacific Affairs. The University of British Columbia
Subjects
Acorn, Milton
Authorship
Cohen, Leonard
Collaboration
Frye, Northrop
Literary characters
Literary criticism
Poetry
Poets
Sleep
Writers
Canada
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Summary:The verbal and the visual interpenetrate in this remarkable livre dartiste: details from illustrations recur as shadows on word-lined pages, and textual fragments insinuate themselves into the images, as in the enthralling colour foldout centrepiece, "How God Talks in His Sleep" A different principle of intermediality governs Bruce Meyer's Portraits of Canadian Writers, the fruit of an impressive three decades worth of encounters, collaborations, and friendships with some of Canada's most celebrated authors.Seldom relying on props or arranged settings, and shot in the writers' houses, backyards or other cherished spaces, they instantly communicate a sense of individuality and passion, fully justifying Meyer's claim that "a successful portrait . . . becomes a text" and "acts as a work of criticism."The book's title is somewhat misleading since it downplays the proportion of poets to practitioners of other literary arts: out of the nearly ninety authors included, only ten or so are not associated first and foremost with poetry.
ISSN:0008-4360