Modigliani's Muse, Poems by Jacqueline Kolosov
In Modigliani's Muse, Jacqueline Kolosov's poems are a rich portrait of the painter Modigliani, of his inner life and art, as strikingly crafted as the artist's work itself.
Sample Poems by Jacqueline Kolosov
“Jacqueline Kolosov’s marvelous poems guide us through the life of Modigliani with a passion and delicacy worthy of their subject. Sensuous and painterly themselves, these lyric narratives deliver to us the events and thoughts of the great painter and those who knew him intimately. They gather a cumulative force, until Modigliani and his beloved Jeanne Hébuterne stand before us, palpable, yet with their mystery intact. And then, in a final tour-de-force, the poet imagines herself into eight portraits by this man who wished ‘to suck the marrow out/ of bone, leaving only incandescence.’”—Gregory Orr
“Jacqueline Kolosov is one of the strongest and most imaginative ekphrastic poets writing today.”—Maura Stanton
“Modigliani's Muse gifts the reader with a richly detailed, gorgeously realized, fleshy, fragrant world that brings to life the great painter and those who surrounded him. With the factual accuracy of a closely researched historical account and the compelling narrative arc of a well-executed novel, Jacqueline Kolosov offers a moving, necessary portrait of a moving, necessary artist, and we are richer for it.”—Beth Ann Fennelly
ISBN: 978-1934999509, 104 pages, $18.00