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There Are No Ghosts There Are Portraits

There Are No Ghosts There Are Portraits

King, Basil
Tekten, Öykü

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Biographies GeneralFiction AnthologiesGeneral Art

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ISBN10: 1733931783
ISBN13: 9781733931786
Publisher: Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Cente
Published: Sep 23 2023
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.37
Language: English

Basil King carries within him a profound array of things seen and things heard first hand, things whose immediate memory is fading from our world ever faster. And these are not just ordinary things but encounters with the lives and visions of some of the greatest creative minds of the post World War II era. This is not to say that Basil King is some relic, a storehouse of bric-a-brac from the past: on the contrary, his ability to apprehend the here and now in light of what he knows, and to find his own form for it, is our very sustenance, a path to be taken right here and right now, a way through the morass we are in. These qualities are brilliantly displayed in recent writings that take up figures like Billy the Kid, poets Samuel Greenberg and Isaac Rosenberg, painters Velazquez, van Dyke, Rubens, Soutine, Modigliani, and Chagal. While we thought he was a painter, and he certainly still is, Basil King's latest textual landscapes portray worlds torqued into collision and relation, offering us new ways to interpret our histories transposed through time, close to the bone and heart, close to our own felt ways of knowing.

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