Questions for the Dead: poems

(2.4 stars) I really love K.B Marie her first poetrybook ‘Birds & other dreamers’ . I decided to read this book too, it contains ekphrastic poems. I was wondering what one would write about paintings they see and come across in life. I actually did some poetry about a few paintings myself together w......more

"Did you brace yourself, your subject,against a world where women were nothing? Did you worry it would always be this way? Servitude, children, and husbands with too many debts? What did the first stroke feel like?The last? Was it a swell of pride or defeat that overtook you as you leaned the resu......more

A very inspiring book, I did feel the need to look at the paintings and learn about the artists that these poems were inspired by. Each poem gave me new insight into the paintings that I was familiar with but hadn’t seen in quite the same way as K. B. Marie......more

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I loved how the poems connected to a real piece of art......more