Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale: Poems

Stephen Gibson's Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale chronicles Frida Kahlo's life and art, including her bittersweet marriage to Diego Rivera. Realized entirely in a modified triolet form, it is an ekphrastic epic that delves deep into brilliance and the tumult of Kahlo's famous oeuvre. It is further enhanced by musings on the catalogue of photographs of or on Frida Kahlo and her interests and circle of family and friends. Even acknowledged Kahlo fans will find something fresh and enlightening in this book to command their attention. This is a unique take and interpretation of this universally acknowledged great artist-and uniquely deployed-unlike any other extant.

PRAISE FOR FRIDA KAHLO IN FORT LAUDERDALE

In this book of incantations Stephen Gibson says, "What one loathes and desires can be the same thing," and those two strands weave through these poems like a double helix of beauty and repulsion. The trolley accident that impaled Kahlo comes up over and over, and each time there is a new layer added to the story in much the same way a painter adds layers to a portrait. These are poems, but they are also music and paintings that give the lucky reader a luminous vision of this woman who forged a life of beauty out of the wreck of her pain.

- Barbara Hamby, author of Holoholo

Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale is composed entirely of triolets about the artist and her paintings. The overall effect is akin to pointillism: the collection's fifty-seven triolets blend in the reader's consciousness much as the tiny dots of various colors in a pointillist painting blend in a viewer's eye to form a coherent image. In this case, the image is of Frida Kahlo, the renowned Mexican painter known for her many portraits and self-portraits. Gibson-brilliant as always in his mastery of formal poetic structures-has crafted a portrait of Kahlo that reads as a single long poem, and yet resonates in the mind as something painterly, a shimmering, vibrant portrait of an artist.

- Edward Falco, author of Wolf Moon Blood Moon

These punchy little poems rat-a-tat the reader like a boxer's jab-cross-uppercut. The immediate subject is Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's bughouse marriage, but this is really a book for everyone. Even the happiest of married couples will react with some version of been there, done that. Divorce lawyers will get dollar signs in their eyes. Young singles will find Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale a useful road map through the minefield of conjugal bliss. Mainly, though, these poems are for poetry lovers. They're smart, they're funny, and they sting like hell-they sting you in a way that makes you say, sting me again.

- David Kirby, author of Help Me, Information

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Stephen Gibson's seventh poetry collection Self-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror won the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, selected by Billy Collins. Earlier collections have won the Donald Justice Prize, Idaho Prize for Poetry, and the MARGIE Book Prize. His poems have appeared in such journals as Able Muse, American Arts Quarterly, the American Journal of Poetry, Boulevard, Cimarron Review, Copper Nickel, Court Green, the Evansville Review, EPOCH, Field, the Gettysburg Review, the Hudson Review, the Iowa Review, J Journal, Measure, New England Review, Notre Dame Review, the Paris Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Quiddity, Raleigh Review, Salamander, the Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, the Southern Review, the Southwest Review, Upstreet, the Yale Review, and elsewhere.

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Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale: Poems

Stephen Gibson's Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale chronicles Frida Kahlo's life and art, including her bittersweet marriage to Diego Rivera. Realized entirely in a modified triolet form, it is an ekphrastic epic that delves deep into brilliance and the tumult of Kahlo's famous oeuvre. It is further enhanced by musings on the catalogue of photographs of or on Frida Kahlo and her interests and circle of family and friends. Even acknowledged Kahlo fans will find something fresh and enlightening in this book to command their attention. This is a unique take and interpretation of this universally acknowledged great artist-and uniquely deployed-unlike any other extant.

PRAISE FOR FRIDA KAHLO IN FORT LAUDERDALE

In this book of incantations Stephen Gibson says, "What one loathes and desires can be the same thing," and those two strands weave through these poems like a double helix of beauty and repulsion. The trolley accident that impaled Kahlo comes up over and over, and each time there is a new layer added to the story in much the same way a painter adds layers to a portrait. These are poems, but they are also music and paintings that give the lucky reader a luminous vision of this woman who forged a life of beauty out of the wreck of her pain.

- Barbara Hamby, author of Holoholo

Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale is composed entirely of triolets about the artist and her paintings. The overall effect is akin to pointillism: the collection's fifty-seven triolets blend in the reader's consciousness much as the tiny dots of various colors in a pointillist painting blend in a viewer's eye to form a coherent image. In this case, the image is of Frida Kahlo, the renowned Mexican painter known for her many portraits and self-portraits. Gibson-brilliant as always in his mastery of formal poetic structures-has crafted a portrait of Kahlo that reads as a single long poem, and yet resonates in the mind as something painterly, a shimmering, vibrant portrait of an artist.

- Edward Falco, author of Wolf Moon Blood Moon

These punchy little poems rat-a-tat the reader like a boxer's jab-cross-uppercut. The immediate subject is Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's bughouse marriage, but this is really a book for everyone. Even the happiest of married couples will react with some version of been there, done that. Divorce lawyers will get dollar signs in their eyes. Young singles will find Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale a useful road map through the minefield of conjugal bliss. Mainly, though, these poems are for poetry lovers. They're smart, they're funny, and they sting like hell-they sting you in a way that makes you say, sting me again.

- David Kirby, author of Help Me, Information

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Stephen Gibson's seventh poetry collection Self-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror won the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, selected by Billy Collins. Earlier collections have won the Donald Justice Prize, Idaho Prize for Poetry, and the MARGIE Book Prize. His poems have appeared in such journals as Able Muse, American Arts Quarterly, the American Journal of Poetry, Boulevard, Cimarron Review, Copper Nickel, Court Green, the Evansville Review, EPOCH, Field, the Gettysburg Review, the Hudson Review, the Iowa Review, J Journal, Measure, New England Review, Notre Dame Review, the Paris Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Quiddity, Raleigh Review, Salamander, the Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, the Southern Review, the Southwest Review, Upstreet, the Yale Review, and elsewhere.

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Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale: Poems

Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale: Poems

by Stephen Gibson
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Stephen Gibson's Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale chronicles Frida Kahlo's life and art, including her bittersweet marriage to Diego Rivera. Realized entirely in a modified triolet form, it is an ekphrastic epic that delves deep into brilliance and the tumult of Kahlo's famous oeuvre. It is further enhanced by musings on the catalogue of photographs of or on Frida Kahlo and her interests and circle of family and friends. Even acknowledged Kahlo fans will find something fresh and enlightening in this book to command their attention. This is a unique take and interpretation of this universally acknowledged great artist-and uniquely deployed-unlike any other extant.

PRAISE FOR FRIDA KAHLO IN FORT LAUDERDALE

In this book of incantations Stephen Gibson says, "What one loathes and desires can be the same thing," and those two strands weave through these poems like a double helix of beauty and repulsion. The trolley accident that impaled Kahlo comes up over and over, and each time there is a new layer added to the story in much the same way a painter adds layers to a portrait. These are poems, but they are also music and paintings that give the lucky reader a luminous vision of this woman who forged a life of beauty out of the wreck of her pain.

- Barbara Hamby, author of Holoholo

Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale is composed entirely of triolets about the artist and her paintings. The overall effect is akin to pointillism: the collection's fifty-seven triolets blend in the reader's consciousness much as the tiny dots of various colors in a pointillist painting blend in a viewer's eye to form a coherent image. In this case, the image is of Frida Kahlo, the renowned Mexican painter known for her many portraits and self-portraits. Gibson-brilliant as always in his mastery of formal poetic structures-has crafted a portrait of Kahlo that reads as a single long poem, and yet resonates in the mind as something painterly, a shimmering, vibrant portrait of an artist.

- Edward Falco, author of Wolf Moon Blood Moon

These punchy little poems rat-a-tat the reader like a boxer's jab-cross-uppercut. The immediate subject is Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's bughouse marriage, but this is really a book for everyone. Even the happiest of married couples will react with some version of been there, done that. Divorce lawyers will get dollar signs in their eyes. Young singles will find Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale a useful road map through the minefield of conjugal bliss. Mainly, though, these poems are for poetry lovers. They're smart, they're funny, and they sting like hell-they sting you in a way that makes you say, sting me again.

- David Kirby, author of Help Me, Information

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Stephen Gibson's seventh poetry collection Self-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror won the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, selected by Billy Collins. Earlier collections have won the Donald Justice Prize, Idaho Prize for Poetry, and the MARGIE Book Prize. His poems have appeared in such journals as Able Muse, American Arts Quarterly, the American Journal of Poetry, Boulevard, Cimarron Review, Copper Nickel, Court Green, the Evansville Review, EPOCH, Field, the Gettysburg Review, the Hudson Review, the Iowa Review, J Journal, Measure, New England Review, Notre Dame Review, the Paris Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Quiddity, Raleigh Review, Salamander, the Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, the Southern Review, the Southwest Review, Upstreet, the Yale Review, and elsewhere.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781773491615
Publisher: Able Muse Press
Publication date: 02/16/2024
Pages: 76
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Stephen Gibson's seventh collection, Self-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror (University of Arkansas Press, 2017), won the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, selected by Billy Collins. Earlier collections include The Garden of Earthly Delights: Book of Ghazals (Texas Review Press, 2016); Rorschach Art Too (Story Line Press, 2014; reprint, Red Hen Press Legacy Title, 2021), winner of the Donald Justice Prize; Paradise (University of Arkansas Press, 2011), finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize; Frescoes (Lost Horse Press, 2011), winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry; Masaccio's Expulsion (Intuit House, 2008), winner of the MARGIE Book Prize; and Rorschach Art (Red Hen Press, 2001). His poems have appeared in such journals as Able Muse, American Arts Quarterly, the American Journal of Poetry, Boulevard, Cimarron Review, Copper Nickel, Court Green, the Evansville Review, EPOCH, Field, the Gettysburg Review, the Hudson Review, the Iowa Review, J Journal, Measure, New England Review, Notre Dame Review, the Paris Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Quiddity, Raleigh Review, Salamander, the Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, the Southern Review, the Southwest Review, Upstreet, the Yale Review, and elsewhere.
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