An Apron Full of Beans
Will be published approx. on 30. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
204 pages
978-1-933880-09-9 (ISBN)
Description
Sam Cornish's new and selected poems, in the voices and with the lyrics of the blues, grow out of the historical and personal reminiscences and traditions of artists like Langston Hughes and Margaret Walker. The poems are autobiographical and biographical, expressed through such art forms as film noir, science fiction, blues, jazz and other aspects of American popular culture.
Reviews / Votes
"Sam Cornish has a direct and insistent commitment to statement understood by feeling, experience, history, memory. He is a sharpener and a sander and a honer. He makes solid articulations his heart shapes with his mind." - Amiri Baraka "Behind the clean lyric line there stands a man who is harsh and honest in his blackness, gentle and perceptive in his humanity." - Maxine Kumin "Sam Cornish operates as a whole person He hasn't chopped himself down into categories. The fullness of spirit in his poems proves he has somehow managed to survive clear and sane through the everlasting maze of babble and brainwash-print blasting our sensibilities every moment everywhere." - Clarence Major"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Fort Lee
United States
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-933880-09-9 (9781933880099)
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Person
Sam Cornish is a writer on abstract art and curator based in London. Recent projects include a book and exhibition on the artists who worked at the Stockwell Depot, a monograph and exhibition on the UK/NZ sculptor John Panting, and the editorship of a two-volume survey of the paintings of Gary Wragg. Amongst his current projects are the co-editorship of the catalogue raisonne of the paintings of John Hoyland and a monograph on the sculptor Tim Scott.