Heart's Many Doors: American Poets Respond to Metka Krašovec's Images Responding to Emily Dickinson

By Richard Jackson and Metka Krasovec

Internationally acclaimed Slovian artist Metka Kraovek created a suite of drawings inspired by the poems of Emily Dickinson. Editor Richard Jackson began gathering poems created in response to the drawings — fascinating and insightful examples of double ekphrasis. The Heart's Many Doors is a rich, cross-genre combination of writing and art that functions as a multi-faceted commentary on Dickinson, art and the creative process. 41 American poets contributed poems written in response to the artwork.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wings Press
• Release date: Jan 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781609405373

Richard Jackson

Richard Jackson, co-founder of Bradbury Press, Orchard Books, and DK Ink, has been an editor and publisher since 1962. He is the author of Have A Look, Says Book, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, and lives in Towson, Maryland.

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Poetry inspires art,

art inspires poetry:

a double ekphrasis

squares the circle.

The Heart’s Many Doors: American Poets Respond to Metka Krašovec’s Images

Responding to Emily Dickinson © 2017 by Wings Press.

All rights revert to the artist and individual authors.

Cover image: Triple Mirror © 1992 by Metka Krašovec.

Painting, 145 x 160 cm. Interior drawings, 2010-12, by Metka Krašovec.

Drawings 12.5 x 18 cm. All art used by permission of the artist.

ISBN: 978-1-60940-536-6 (paperback original)

E-books:

ePub: 978-1-60940-537-3

Mobipocket/Kindle: 978-1-60940-538-0

Library PDF: 978-1-60940-539-7

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jackson, Richard, 1946- editor. | Kraésovec, Metka, 1941- illustrator.

   Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.

Title: The heart’s many doors : American poets respond to Metka

Kraésovec’s images responding to Emily Dickinson / edited by Richard Jackson.

Description: San Antonio, Texas : Wings Press, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016043986 | ISBN 9781609405366 (paperback) | ISBN 9781609405380 (kindle/mobipocket ebook) | ISBN 9781609405397 (library pdf) | ISBN 9781609405373 (ePub)

Subjects: LCSH: American poetry--21st century. | Art--Poetry. |

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) | Kraésovec, Metka, 1941--Poetry. |

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886--Poetry. | BISAC: POETRY / American / General. | ART / European.

LCC PS595.A75 H44 2017

DDC 811/.6080357--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016043986

CONTENTS

Introduction

THE HEART HAS MANY DOORS

Ralph Angel

Mark Halliday

Mary Ruefle

Barbara Siegel Carlson

Olivia Townsend

Richard Jackson

Leslie Ullman

Mark Cox

Nance Van Winckel

A WOUNDED DEER LEAPS HIGHEST

Ralph Angel

Dara Wier

David Rivard

Phillis Levin

Dean Young

Leslie Ullman

Richard Jackson

HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS

Ralph Angel

Nance Van Winckel

William Olsen

Nancy Eimers

David Rivard

Leslie Ullman

Hunter Hobbs

Richard Jackson

Laura Behr

THERE IS A SOLITUDE OF SPACE

Ralph Angel

David Rivard

William Olsen

Cathy Wagner

Richard Jackson

Earl Sherman Braggs

William Pitt Root

Emilia Phillips

Christopher Buckley

Trenna Sharpe

THE HEART ASKS PLEASURE FIRST

Ralph Angel

Mark Jarman

Pam Uschuk

Richard Jackson

Leslie Ullman

Alex Martin

Susan Thomas

LOVE THOU ART VEILED

Ralph Angel

Dean Young

Richard Jackson

Alex Martin

Danielle Hanson

Ann Manning

Cody Taylor

NO RACK CAN TORTURE ME

Ralph Angel

Dara Wier

Richard Jackson

Leslie Ullman

Chad Prevost

Brittney Carneal

Bryce Milligan

I’VE SEEN A DYING EYE

Ralph Angel

Chad Prevost

Chris Merrill

Richard Jackson

Chad Prevost

Matthew Zapruder

Pam Uschuk

Bryce Milligan

I MEASURE EVERY GRIEF I MEET

Ralph Angel

David Wojahn

Earl Sherman Braggs

Bradley Paul

David Rivard

Deborah Brown

Richard Jackson

Leslie Ullman

SAFE DESPAIR IS IT THAT RAVES

Ralph Angel

Mark Halliday

William Olen

Richard Jackson

Pam Uschuk

Josh Mensch

Ata Moharerri

THEY SAY THAT TIME ASSUAGES

Ralph Angel

Dara Wier

Leslie Ullman

J Allyn Rosser

Bradley Paul

Bill Rasmovicz

Richard Jackson

Jordan Culotta

About the Artist

About the Editor

About the Contributors

Metka

Tomaž Šalamun

A fragment of a living heart is not like a flat

Wafer, and not as white.

Through a clear glass I am watching limousines.

About lacquer! No mas! No mas!

The most fragile springs live to see

The day, even when blessed with the sea’s saltiness.

And fish who use enormous

Waters just to be able to swim:

Snow melts only in the mountains.

The holy spirit springs from there

To gather waiting for you, that

water which will lead him to the sea.

Translated by Richard Jackson

INTRODUCTION

This project began a few years ago when I was given a book