Friday, April 13, 2012

Poetry Friday: Book with Wings

Anselm Kiefer
Book with Wings, 1992–94
Lead, tin, and steel
74 3/4 x 208 5/8 x 43 3/8 inches (189.9 x 529.9 x 110.2 cm)
Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
Museum purchase, Sid W. Richardson Foundation Endowment Fund
Acquired in 2000



Prose, soaring? Muse flash?
Poem as hymn, hosannah high?
Lopsided wings flap.

           ---Sara Lewis Holmes


I woke up today, glad to be home from a week of travel, and was suddenly aware it was Poetry Friday.  No need to panic. My iPhone held this photo of a sculpture from the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, where we spent an hour trying to understand the questions modern art flings at us. Not nearly enough time, of course.

But I have you guys, and this day of poetry, and lots of time now to think about it all. Happy Poetry Friday!

The host today is Booktalking.







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15 comments:

  1. tanita✿davis4/13/12, 9:56 AM

    Think your poem matches that PERFECTLY.
    A lopsided hosanna - that's most of my poetry, I think. And yet: my crooked kind of symmetry works.

    Thank you.

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    1. Sara4/13/12, 10:05 AM

      I love the way the wings seem to be twisted a bit from the strain.

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  2. Sara4/13/12, 10:03 AM

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  3. jama4/13/12, 10:52 AM

    Perfect pairing. "lopsided wings flap" :)

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    1. Sara4/13/12, 1:46 PM

      Thanks. I was pleased with that flap sound at the end of the line/poem. :)

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  4. david elzey4/13/12, 11:03 AM

    books, like hope, are things with wings.

    and sometimes the answer to the questions modern art asks is simply to laugh. maybe not here, but far too often people forget that it's okay to simply be amused.

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    1. Sara4/13/12, 1:46 PM

      I love modern art, but I also get angry at it. And laugh at it. I like the way it requires you to do something other than stand there and oooh and ahhh. Although, there was some ooohing and ahhing at some modern pieces in this museum---mostly, this incredible sky-high ladder built from two ash trees. I guess for me, I like the artist to show evidence of craft. I don't like it when I as the viewer have to do ALL the heavy lifting.

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  5. Andromeda Jazmon4/13/12, 2:05 PM

    That sings (wings)!

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  6. Ruth4/13/12, 7:37 PM

    Every single word belongs! Great job!

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  7. Robyn Hood Black4/13/12, 9:34 PM

    I, too, love those "lopsided wings." And what a cool sculpture! Thanks for sharing.

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    1. Sara4/13/12, 10:18 PM

      Imperfection is the key to good art, I think.

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  8. GatheringBooks4/13/12, 11:42 PM

    I love both the photo and the poetry! Modern art does inspire these kinds of musings. :) Prose, soaring - is my favorite line. :)

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  9. Mary Lee4/15/12, 6:37 AM

    "Glory be to God for dappled things" and lopsided wings!

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