Kay Ryan zählt zu den originellsten Stimmen der zeitgenössischen Poesie. Ihre Gedichte zeichnen sich durch eine dicht komprimierte Form, rhythmische Dichte und oft bissigen Witz aus, die häufig Vergleiche mit Emily Dickinson und Marianne Moore hervorrufen. Ryan gestaltet ihre ökonomischen Verse mit einer einzigartigen Fähigkeit für „rekombinierte“ Reime und etablierte sich damit als eine der führenden lebenden amerikanischen Dichterinnen. Ihr Werk ist das Ergebnis jahrelanger tiefgründiger Kontemplation, in der philosophische Überlegungen mit einem kühlen Intellekt verschmelzen, der es ihr ermöglicht, sich auch „heißen“ Themen mit Distanz zu nähern.
This collection features essays by a renowned poet and Pulitzer Prize winner, offering insights into her unique perspective and literary journey. As a former Poet Laureate of the United States, Kay Ryan's work reflects her distinctive voice and thoughtful exploration of language and meaning. Readers can expect a blend of personal reflections and broader themes, showcasing her talent beyond poetry and inviting a deeper understanding of her artistic vision.
Electricity in its myriad forms has intrigued people for centuries. In our modern era it powers nearly every machine and modern convenience that defines contemporary life. However, by hiding power lines underground or in the walls of our homes and through generations of miniaturization, our sense of what electricity is and how we have come to understand it is not widely considered. Electricities is comprised of photographs that depict constructions Goldes refers to as 'performing still-lifes' based on historical experiments into the nature of electricity. Electrical phenomena including electrostatics, high-voltage arcing, Faraday's first transformer, water conductivity, electrified graphite drawings, and other inventions and experiments form the basis of these works. Elegant and playful, Goldes uses commonplace materials such as string, pins, wire, pencil lines and bright colored backgrounds in his ingenious investigations. The photographs reveal how electricity behaves; how it jumps gaps, repels, attracts, arcs, destroys, and often confounds our expectations. Uniting the strategies of art and science his visually rigorous images reveal a mechanistic understanding of electricity in dialogue with the viewer's subjectivities that can expand, build upon and even contradict such explanations.