These Vibrant Shadow People: Paintings, Poems, and Epiphanies

By Xlibris US

These Vibrant Shadow People: Paintings, Poems and Epiphanies, is Ana Marias first book. These paintings inspired her emergence as an ekphrasis poet. The poet sees and transforms the image into words, which extend an immediate response into a reflective and lasting memory.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499051506

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Copyright © 2014 by Ana Maria Rollins. 653581

ISBN:      Softcover         978-1-4990-5151-3

                EBook             978-1-4990-5150-6

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Rev. date: 07/30/2014

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Contents

Forward

Acknowledgements

The Etruscan Collection

These Vibrant Shadow People

Carolyn of the Corners

Persephone, the Greek Consort of

Hades From the Fields of Elysium

Patrician Lady

Rainy Day Love

Fire Escape

The Scarlet Couple

Final Portraiture

The Doorway Through Time

The Tomb of Hunting and Fishing

The Diver

The Double Flautist

A Sense of Touch

Blue Mirror

The Dance of Love

Terra Cotta Blue

Ecstasy

The Wings of a Dove

Farewell: A Tribute to Tinia

Exodus

The Huntsman and His Dog

The Diviner

The Batik Process

About the Artist

The Blue Flautist hearlds

the celebration of

Life after Life

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For Thor, Sol, and Ju

Ars Longa Vita Brevis

Forward

The batiks featured in this book address one of life’s most looming questions: What occurs after physical death? Or, better yet: How do we survive this imminent metaphysical change? To some, this topic may seem a stretch. After all, who knows for certain? Yet, the hereafter, and its heavenly promise of rebirth and regeneration, has captivated the religious and the esoteric for eons.

The current cultural concept of death is wrought with finality. Western iconography of death takes most of its cues from the grim reaper—the proverbial skull and crossbones, the