Instruments of Art by John F Deane

Instruments of Art by John F Deane

The Instruments of Art uses poetry to explore the lives and works of Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh and others, the personal sacrifice involved, the singular vision and inspiration that set them in motion. God's creation, some argue, is a work of art, and Christ's life and death an expression of it. Deane follows this thread in a series of sonnets based on the Stations of the Cross. Another series of poems takes John the Evangelist, 'the one whom Christ loved', as the voice of a poet expressing the hard love and personal commitment demanded by Christ; Deane conducts this exploration experimentally, contrasting and complimenting it with his personal experience of faith through suffering and love. The Old Testament story of Jacob's search for meaning is retold through the poet's own memories of family and becomes an emblem of the universal search for truth and peace. This is a collection written by the light of faith yet shadowed by doubt; it develops an instinctive approach to art that offers an understanding in terms of the highest reaches of suffering humanity.

'When John FDeane fuses the music of thought and feeling with the music of language itself, there rises in me that internal Yes! That we unconsciously hunger to experience as we approach a poem or any work of art.' Denise Levertov

John F. Deane was born on Achill Island in 1943. He founded Poetry Ireland - the National Poetry Society - and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979. He is the author of many collections of poetry and some fiction, including from Carcanet Toccata and Fugue: New and Selected Poems (2000) and Manhandling the Deity (2003, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize). His poetry has been published in French, Bulgarian, Romanian, Italian and Swedish translation. In 1996 he was elected Secretary-General of the European Academy of Poetry. The recipient of the O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 1998, his poems in Italian, translated by Roberto Cogo, won the 2002 Premio Internazionale di Poesia Citta di Marineo for the best foreign poetry of the year.

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ISBN 13	9781857547863
ISBN 10	1857547861
Title	Instruments of Art
Author	John F Deane
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published	2005-11-24
Number of pages	96
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