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By Lois C. Henderson
Published on September 7, 2010
 

Author: Joyce White

Series: Sculpting the Heart Series, 4th Edition 

Publisher: Lulu.com

ISBN: 978-0-557-22371-8

White’s poems, which are all in free verse, should appeal to all those who are responsive to both the visual and written forms of artistic expression. Inspirational and accessible, her poems should uplift your spirit and might even encourage you to start on your own personal exploration of the creative potential within you



 

Author: Joyce White

Series: Sculpting the Heart Series, 4th Edition 

Publisher: Lulu.com

ISBN: 978-0-557-22371-8

Click Here To Purchase Sculpting the Heart's Poetry - While Conversing with the Masters

This collection of poetry is filled with poems that reveal Joyce White’s secret, innermost feelings. She finds that writing poetry is an outstanding way of focusing on visual art of the masters. White states that “[e]kphrastic poetry…makes an excellent conversation between two pieces of art.” In her foreword to the collection, White thanks Picasso, Chagall, and all the other artists whose work she tries to match with her own paintings and poetry. Referring to the writing of poetry as a means by which to confront past circumstances as a form of poem therapy, White makes the reader aware of the close connection that there is between different art forms.

What is ‘ekphrastic’ poetry? Not a term with which I was familiar at first glance, I must admit, but, according to Word4Word poets (http://www.word4wordpoets.org/ekphrastic/), meaning “a poet's response to the direct stimuli of a piece of art combined with the poet's own experience in the moment. The Ekphrastic poem can be a description of the artwork, a story that came into the poet's mind while looking at the art work, or a poem describing the scene or experience in which the art work is placed, or a combination of all of the above.” Much as I feel about my book reviews, White writes “[t]here is no such thing as writer’s block when we use others ideas to inspire us.” Her poems in this book have been composed in response to a number of different artworks, which are reproduced in full pages of black and white in this volume. Such artworks include Renoir’s By the Seashore, Picasso’s Les Demoiselles, Rafael’s Angels, Picasso’s Girl in Mirror, and Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus. She also includes the photograph of a collage which she has created from the work of Chagall.

 The ability to respond to nature is of key importance to the creation of all forms of art, White finds.  White highlights the needs of poets, which she links closely to journaling, in that both forms of expression allow one to capture fleeting thoughts and emotions. Her approach is summed up in her poem ‘Our Inner Poet’: “When art comes to consciousness, / whether it be Haiku, epic or free verse, / if it looks and sounds like a poem, it is,…”.

 White’s poems, which are all in free verse, should appeal to all those who are responsive to both the visual and written forms of artistic expression. Inspirational and accessible, her poems should uplift your spirit and might even encourage you to start on your own personal exploration of the creative potential within you.

Click Here To Purchase Sculpting the Heart's Poetry - While Conversing with the Masters