The Instruments of Art

by Deane, John F.

• ISBN13: 9781857547863
• ISBN10: 1857547861
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Religion, personal experiences of faith, and parallels between artistic and godly creation are explored in this collection of emotionally raw poems that focus on the suffering and love required by the God of the Old Testament and the poet's own struggle with religious endeavors. The lives, works, personal sacrifices, and inspirations of Edvard Munch, Van Gogh, and others are also discussed.

Table of Contents

I The Instruments of Art
Canvas	3	(1)
Heirs to a Different Century	4	(3)
Late October Evening	7	(1)
Riverdown	8	(3)
The Gift	11	(1)
Rhododendron, Fuchsia, Thorn	12	(3)
By the Banks of the Dodder	15	(1)
The Visitors	16	(1)
The Rowan Tree	17	(1)
The Meadows of Asphodel	18	(1)
Adagio Molto	19	(1)
Three Rivers	20	(1)
The Instruments of Art	21	(6)
II The Artist	27	(10)
III The Old Yellow House
House at the Crossroads	37	(1)
The Study	38	(1)
Carpenter	39	(1)
The Monastery	40	(1)
Sheltering Places	41	(1)
The Mysteries	42	(1)
The Ship	43	(1)
The Siege	44	(1)
The Old Yellow House	45	(4)
IV According to John
You	49	(1)
One for Sorrow	50	(3)
Lady	53	(1)
The Jacaranda Tree	54	(1)
The Divine Office	55	(2)
Of Misery: The Other John	57	(2)
Suffer the Children	59	(2)
Master of the Feast	61	(2)
Angelus	63	(3)
Drinking the Spring	66	(2)
In the Teeth of the Wolf	68	(3)
The Gravity of Flesh	71	(3)
Lazarus, and the Migration of Storks	74	(3)
Carnival of the Animals	77	(1)
The Aftertaste of Bitterness	78	(2)
Beloved	80	(2)
Report from a Far Place	82	(1)
The Light of Dawn	83	(3)
Prayer	86	(3)
V An Exemplary Fiction
The Red Gate	89	(1)
Mushrooms	90	(2)
The Big Men	92	(1)
The Mother	93	(2)
Husbandry	95	(1)
The Poem	96	(1)
Spaces of Peace	97	(1)
Brothers	98	(2)
Age of Foolishness	100	(1)
Blessing	101	(1)
Patricia's Story	102	(3)
Spaces before War	105	(1)
The Marriage Settlement	106	(1)
On Land and Sea	107	(1)
The Dromedary Caravans	108	(2)
By the River	110	(2)
The Chaplet	112	(3)
VI Seasons in Hell
Holy Saturday	115	(1)
The Artist in his Youth	115	(1)
Boot-Prints in Snow	116	(1)
Terre Cuite	116	(1)
Hero	117	(1)
Foxgloves	117	(1)
Redemption	118	(1)
Daffodils	118