TY  - BOOK
AU  - John Wilkinson
TI  - Reckitt's Blue
SN  - 9780857420923
U1  - 821.914 JOH 
PY  - 0000///11/012013///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Seagull Books London Ltd
KW  - Poetry by individual poets
N1  - Poetry by individual poets; General (US: Trade)
N2  - "An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard's ""L'escarpolette"", or ""The Swing"", is often reproduced, and its famous foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper midswing is widely familiar. In ""Reckitt's Blue"", John Wilkinson explores that well-known scene in a long poem that engages with the image of the flying slipper, and he also presents two other sequences of poems based on paintings. Though born out of visual encounters with art, these poems also examine weaponry and domestic and ritual objects - artifacts that evoke a violent encounter. Here, Wilkinson's concentrated lines evidence what the critic Simon Jarvis has called his ""unfree verse,"" that reaches into new and unexpected territory in both style and theme. This combination of sensual beauty, intellectual ambition, and political acuity is like nothing else in contemporary English-language poetry."
UR  - "John Wilkinson is an English poet living in Chicago, where he has been professor of practice in the arts at the University of Chicago. He has published ten major collections of poetry, including Down to Earth, and a volume of criticism entitled The Lyric Touch."
ER  -