Word: poeticisms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reminiscences told in a straightforward style that offers the reader a fly-on-the-wall perspective, Tyler's work really blossoms, so to speak, in the final third of the book. Created mostly after her child-rearing duties wound down, the colors explode and the work becomes more poetic, but still real and funny. One standout piece, called "My American Labels" (which also appears in Roadstrips, a fine new anthology of American cartoonists published by Chronicle Books) reads as a series of long panels designed to be affixed over cans of beans. Each label, "Wooden House," "Cone Drip," "Panting...
...every child's middle name, but this lovely book should tame the rowdiest tyke by dwelling on sound, not noise. The blue house is a summer place that, after the season ends and the suitcases bang closed and the car doors slam shut, falls silent. Or does it? Banks' poetic text and Hallensleben's richly impastoed paintings guide us through the deserted rooms, evoking the dripping of a kitchen faucet, the buckling and crackling of frost on the windows, the ruffling of a cat shaking snowflakes from its fur, even the silence of a bird sitting on its nest...
...soldier. From this moment on, Agu’s life is a journey through all sorts of violence and brutality, led by the chilling figure of a “Commandant” who abuses him in all possible ways. Through the lens of Agu’s innocently poetic voice, the reader is compelled to enter a world of horrifying violence.It is the Commandant who detachedly explains to him that killing “is like falling in love. You cannot be thinking about it, you are just having to do it.” Horrifyingly, the reader...
...babbling brook, which might boost real estate prices significantly. Further, the proposed name was intelligently designed—“lane” instead of “street”—to avoid unnecessary alliteration, so as not to reflect badly on residents’ poetic sensibilities...
...Rooms. Lee Blessing's meditation on a Beirut hostage and his grieving spouse was the play of the year, its poetic pain matched by Laura Esterman's gutsy portrait of the wife and James Houghton's brilliantly imaginative staging at off-off- Broadway's tiny Signature Theater. The couple was separated in reality yet entwined in fantasy, often at the same moment...