NUDE IN WINTER - Softcover

Sterle, Francine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932195335 ISBN 13: 9781932195330

Publisher: Tupelo Press, 2006

Synopsis

Poetry. Here the intertwined lives of painter and painted are presented in a wide-ranging collection of poems. These urgent, provocative poems depict artists and images so vividly that they draw us to them and demand our participation. A native of the north woods of Minnesota, Francine Sterle attended Oxford University as an undergraduate and holds a B.S. and a master's degree from Bemidji State University, as well as an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her first book, EVERY BIRD IS ONE BIRD, won the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize in 2001.

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About the Author:

Francine Sterle holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Warren Wilson College and has studied writing in a variety of academic and workshop settings. She is the author of Every Bird is One Bird, which won the Editor's Prize from Tupelo Press and was nominated for both a Pushcart Prize and a Northeastern Minnesota Book Award.

Review:

Protean, visceral, visionary: Francine Sterle is 'the poet [who] aims her words at whats unworded.' Entering work after work of art, she releases 'the pressure of concealment' in what is mute to reveal the 'deforming forces,' 'the buried grains of regret,' 'the geology of grief.' Her loving eye embeds itself in the matter it illuminates, unafraid of what it sees, and 'radiance/ breaks through/ the darkened heart.'Eleanor Wilner

""'The body is entitled to some lyricism,' Francine Sterle insists in a series of ekphrastic poems that deepen into 'sumptuous facades' so that they might attempt ""more than learning to see.' If 'Ingres believed the only way to possess a woman / was to paint her,' Sterle believes that passionate lyric engagement might be a means of possessing these paintings. 'Touched by the erotic,' her poems gather into a gallery unlike any other, a museum of Sterle's own making in which 'The poet aims her words at what's unworded' to cast light upon the divine, sometimes lascivious, and always 'exquisite curves' of creation.""Michael Waters

""Francine Sterle's lucid and prismatic book is an art gallery made of words. Nude in Winter exemplifies the way poetry can restore the static image to the realm of time, where it can move and breathe. Sterle's poems also lead us from what we can see to what cannot be seen, from the tangible world to the inner life. Attuned to both the erotic and the spiritual, this is a beautiful book.""Reginald Gibbons --Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1932195335
• ISBN 13: 9781932195330
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72