by Basil King (28 pp. Saddle-Stitched, full-color drawings & photographs) $6 ppd.
Cy Gist Press is happy to announce the official release of Basil King's Learning to Draw / A History: Portraits.
-->Before I began reading grown-up books as a child, most of what I knew about
literature came from a card game called “Game of Authors.” In this installment of his epic “Learning
to Draw / A History,” Basil King likewise stacks his own deck of historical
personages. Like King’s exquisite line
drawings that accompany the poems, the Portraits offer intimate yet enigmatic
limns of such luminaries as Charles Darwin, Joan Mitchell and Amiri Baraka. King's Portraits follow a thread through the labyrinth our
intellectual history looking for the bull-headed genius of vision.
From Portraits
by Basil King
Eva Hesse
All she had was a
piece of string to dip into fiberglass, paint, dyed nets and papier mache into
another piece of string tied to another piece of string tied to another piece
of string. Tied to another piece of string.
Paul Klee
wouldn’t believe his friends when they told him he had to leave Germany. He was
a German. Eve Hesse left Germany with her family when she was three. At Yale
she studied with Joseph Albers. Albers had known Klee when they were both at
the Bauhaus. Eva was told she would forget her parents their divorce, her
mother’s suicide the death of her father.
All she had was a
piece of string to dip into fiberglass, paint, dyed nets and papier mache into
another piece of string tied to another piece of string tied to another piece
of string. Tied to another piece of string.
Aricimboldo
claims music like water
Has the face of
vegetation
Lemons and
candlesticks
Beetle wings and Eyes
