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ISBN:0930526201
"Gathering Light"
painting on Jacket by Author/Artist “By coincidence, Kreiter-Foronda said she just discovered that her mother Lucile’s name means ‘light.’ Lucile Kreiter, she added, was key to her development as an artist and writer.” -- From: Christine Cestaro, “Burke Woman Gathers Light with her Art,” The Burke Connection, February 24, 1994 |
DESCRIPTION: "Kreiter-Foronda invites her readers to join in an
artistic family reunion, bringing together the visual and verbal
expressions of creativity which are too often separated in contemporary
culture. She has an almost magical ability to become fully immersed in
another artist's personal vision, transforming distant fragments of art
history into moments of intense awareness."
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©1993 by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda As a Teacher I’m Inclined to Ignore the Critics who say Georgia O’Keeffe’s flowers are female parts, her Lawrence tree a monstrous phallus, who failed themselves as artists. I’m apt to let my class loose in O’Keeffe’s heroic light so they can soak in the spirit of a private mountain painted so many times she ought to have owned it. I’m prone to let the children search the red hills and bones for a mystery, let them create a movie script about Horse’s Skull with White Rose: a cowgirl, for example, three months dead in the desert, nothing left but calcified bones, a lover’s parched rose fastened to the horse’s forehead. Which myopic critic said, There is nothing here but confusion on a large scale? I tell my students to lie close to her shells and listen to the wind sing in marble shadows, to carry that music in their heads so they too can fashion a world as though they’re the first to see it: lone tree in the full sky and this feeling of grand space. |
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Reviewer: Cheri Harte from Boalsburg, PA "ART IS A FLOWER THAT OPENS FREELY outside of all rules," according to poet Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda in her book Gathering Light. Just as she cojoined the title of the poem and its beginning lines, she cheerfully breaks conventions to enhance her creativity. The reader of this book will get a world-wide tour, at a bargain price, seen through the eyes of this artist, musician and teacher. Whether she is watching a woman gathering "bellflowers bent over like priests in prayer" while in Innsbruck or "sweeping up a handful of hippos," while enjoying a balloon safari in Africa, the poet brings her experiences alive with her vivid writing. In addition to her poems written about her many travels, she steps into the minds of many artists. Georgia O'Keeffe and Vincent van Gogh are two of her favorites, and, while imagining herself observing Rodin in his studio, she writes, "The models swirl and twist past Rodin until they rest in space like marionettes without strings." Kreiter-Foronda has her roots in Virginia, but she has expanded her universe by traveling far and wide. In part, this has come from discovering her husband Patricio's South American heritage, and many readers will enjoy experiencing her spiritual journey to Macchu Picchu. It is rare to find someone with both the artist's eye and the poet's voice. Take advantage of this and purchase this book of poetry. |
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