Nostalgia's Thread: Ten Poems on Norman Rockwell Paintings

Randall R. Freisinger

ISBN 10: 193610203X / ISBN 13: 9781936102037

Published by Hol Art Books, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nostalgia's Thread: Ten Poems on Norman Rockwell Paintings
• Publisher: Hol Art Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193610203X
• ISBN 13: 9781936102037
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

The poems in Nostalgia's Thread offer an accessible and provocative reconsideration of the American experience as depicted in ten of Rockwell's best-known paintings. Arguably the only serious collection of poems inspired by Norman Rockwell's images, they were conceived just prior to the attacks of September 11th, 2001, and written in their wake.

These poems remind us that visual art is never static, the beholder's eye never innocent. They bear witness to the fact that each cultural era must reinterpret its rich artistic inheritance within the context of its current collective experience. With unflinching honesty and deep compassion, these poems present a personal and national past which is both comforting and disturbing, both "nostalgia'€™s thread" and "the barbed wire / of memory."

About the Author

"Nostalgia's Thread" is Randall R. Freisinger's third chapbook-length collection of poetry. His two previous chapbooks are "Hand Shadows" (Green Tower Press, 1988) and "Running Patterns", which won the Flume Press Chapbook Award in 1985. His full-length book, "Plato's Breath", won the May Swenson Poetry Award from Utah State University Press in 1996. His poems have appeared for over forty years in numerous literary magazines and anthologies and have been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize. He is Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric, Literature, and Creative Writing at Michigan Technological University and lives with his wife, Jill Burkland, on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan.