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ISBN-10: 1632430754
ISBN-13: 9781632430755
Publisher: Omnidawn
Publish Date: 10/15/2019
Dimensions: 8.80" L, 5.80" W, 0.30" H

Silences

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Overview

Within the visual arts of painting and photography, Martha Ronk finds an undeniable presence lurking: silence. This character slips into pauses, hides between images, and expertly evades the grasp of language. Ronk shows us that what is hidden just off screen in these images might just be the force that gives them power. The poems in Silences seek possibilities of how to form language from a phenomenon that so earnestly resists it. Rather than coax silence out of hiding, Ronk’s poems respond to its mysterious presence through questions and conjecture.

These poems endeavor to give a much-deserved voice to silence, addressing the power of what is not seen. While silence remains perpetually out of reach, Ronk invites us to follow the language that creeps up to its edges. The poems in this collection form an inquiry that moves through the presence of silence and reveals insights into the character of the visual art in which it lives.

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"These poems seek, in humble and honest ways, all that falls back into, or refuses to emerge from, the inexpressible rooted silently inside the givens of our lives–not to break the secret open, but more simply, more wondrously, to admit it's there. Such poems return us to art's fundamental courage: to note where facts and knowledge fray into the unknown from which they were first woven, and to ask those questions that end beyond the end of the poem."–Dan Beachy-Quick, author of Of Silence and Song
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Details

ISBN-10: 1632430754
ISBN-13: 9781632430755
Publisher: Omnidawn
Publish Date: 10/15/2019
Dimensions: 8.80" L, 5.80" W, 0.30" H
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