A journal of rediscovery
A Q&A by Melissa Gordon – PY: Your poem “On Leonardo’s ‘Figures To Represent Labor’” was inspired by the drawing “Figures To Represent Labor” by Leonardo Da Vinci. This drawing is part of the Royal Trust Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Did you see this drawing in person?
Continue readingInterview with Brett Foster on his poem “On Leonardo’s ‘Figures To Represent Labor’”
Leonardo DaVinci captured the intention of the human soul as he combined art and science. … Continue readingOn Leonardo’s “Figures To Represent Labor” by Brett Foster
by Catherine D’Andrea – According to Leonardo Da Vinci, force is “a spiritual power, incorporeal and invisible, which with brief life is produced”1. Though just a partial sketch, “Figures to Represent Labor” demonstrates the artist’s understanding of force and anatomy, mass and gravity, vectors and torque. It is not complete and
Continue readingRediscovered Stories: Science and Soul in Sketched Figures
– Billy Lee Brammer’s The Gay Place, a collection of three related political novels, received national acclaim when it was published in 1961. Each novel follows a very Lyndon-Johnson-like Governor Arthur Fenstemaker who directs the fate of both his loved ones and the state of Texas. This was Brammer’s first
Continue readingFlashes of Past: The Politics of Writing a Political Novel
– In a box of old textbooks and odd paperbacks, this unusual book, The American Ship-Master’s Guide: Seaman’s Manual useful to merchants, ship-masters, supercargoes, mariners, and merchant’s clerks, was found in New London, Connecticut in the 1970s. Since that time, the book has been part of my family collection. I’m
Continue readingHistorical Books and Their Personal Histories
Nance Van Winckel’s visual poems reframe information and graphics in a 1947 encyclopedia and create a new sense of knowledge. … Continue readingVisual Poems by Nance Van Winckel
A Q&A by Leslie Lindenauer – PY: Your pieces published in Poor Yorick come from a series of digital photo-collage pieces taken from a current project entitled The Book of No Ledge. Can you talk about your artistic statement in this series? NVW: In my dialogue with this encyclopedia (circa