Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Momento: On Standing in Front of Art
    Momento: On Standing in Front of Art
    Momento: On Standing in Front of Art
    Ebook184 pages2 hours

    Momento: On Standing in Front of Art

    By Jeffery Donaldson

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Why do we stand in front of art and look at it? Why do we go to galleries and museums? What does it feel like? What do you expect to have happen there? How do you feel before you enter, after you leave? What do you do with all your moods, your attentions, your restlessness, your curiosity, your sense of time? How does a visit come to be in the way that a painting comes to be? Does it matter how you begin? Does it matter if you’re ready? Jeffery Donaldson's Momento answers these questions and more by offering a poetic daydream about the curious, otherworldly, but urgent and existential experience of art, artifacts, and the buildings that house them. This little book itself is like a visit to a museum. Enter and wander as you please.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGordon Hill Press
    Release dateApr 15, 2023
    ISBN9781774220788
    Momento: On Standing in Front of Art
    Author

    Jeffery Donaldson

    Jeffery Donaldson is the author of several collections of poetry including Granted: Poems of Metaphor (Fall 2022). Palilalia was nominated for the Canadian Author’s Association Award for Poetry in 2008 and a prose work, Viaticum: From Notebooks, received the Hamilton Arts Council Award for non-fiction in 2021. Donaldson teaches poetry and poetics at McMaster University. He lives in Hamilton.

    Read more from Jeffery Donaldson

    Related to Momento

    Related ebooks

    Art For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      In Praise of Darkness

      Aug 15, 2018

      HEATHER LANIER is the author of the nonfiction book Teaching in the Terrordome as well as two poetry chapbooks. Her essays have appeared in Salon, the Sun, Fourth Genre, Brevity, and elsewhere, and her TED talk on the incomplete stories we tell ourse

      8 min read

    • Article

      Eve L. Ewing

      Dec 5, 2017

      Haymarket Books they mailed me from Mississippi in a metal ice chest —from “how i arrived” HOW IT BEGAN: It started as a collection of mostly autobiographical poems that were varyingly interesting but not really cohesive. I talked with the publisher

      2 min read

    • Article

      Eve L. Ewing

      Dec 13, 2017

      Haymarket Books they mailed me from Mississippi in a metal ice chest —from “how i arrived” HOW IT BEGAN: It started as a collection of mostly autobiographical poems that were varyingly interesting but not really cohesive. I talked with the publisher

      2 min read

    • Article

      Danelle Bergstrom

      Aug 24, 2016

      Danelle Bergstrom
      6 min read

    • Article

      Bowl Of Oranges

      Sep 1, 2018

      I first read Jos Charles’s feeld as a Word document two years ago. I admired her first book, Safe Space, and wanted to know what she was working on next. When I started to read the poems in the new manuscript, I felt like the words were physically li

      9 min read

    • Article

      Eye Of The Beholder

      Oct 11, 2019

      Eye Of The Beholder
      7 min read

    • Article

      Peter Tyndall

      Mar 1, 2023

      Peter Tyndall
      8 min read

    • Article

      Jenny Watson

      Nov 7, 2018

      Jenny Watson
      5 min read

    • Article

      Peg Alford Pursell

      Oct 11, 2017

      Age: “Over fifty.” Residence: San Francisco Bay Area. Book:Show Her a Flower, a Bird, a Shadow (ELJ Editions, March), a collection of intense hybrid prose—flash fiction, prose poetry, and other forms that resist categorization—that pulls a world of a

      2 min read

    • Article

      Flesh On The Bones

      Jun 1, 2023

      I’m an under-writer. I tend to trace a story out using the faintest of lines, leaving half of the page blank, leaving half of the words in my head. Then I have to go back and shore up what I’ve written, making sure I’m not expecting a great feat of t

      6 min read

    • Article

      Tom Arthur

      Nov 9, 2016

      Tom Arthur
      6 min read

    • Article

      Ian Friend

      Feb 28, 2018

      Ian Friend
      5 min read

    • Article

      Peg Alford Pursell

      Oct 11, 2017

      Age: “Over fifty.” Residence: San Francisco Bay Area. Book:Show Her a Flower, a Bird, a Shadow (ELJ Editions, March), a collection of intense hybrid prose—flash fiction, prose poetry, and other forms that resist categorization—that pulls a world of a

      2 min read

    • Article

      Michael Buzacott

      Mar 1, 2017

      Michael Buzacott
      5 min read

    • Article

      “If You’re Not Your Own Favourite Poet Then What Are You Doing?”

      Mar 1, 2024

      Light and I “met,” if we can call it that, when we were both taking part in Lambda Literary’s virtual 2021 Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. I don’t know that I had prepared myself for the strangeness of a poetry workshop via Zoom, and ulti

      11 min read

    • Article

      Jeff VanderMeer On Writing For Happiness and What to Read Next

      Mar 2, 2017

      Last night, Jeff VanderMeer treated fans and readers to a great AMA over at Reddit, during which he answered questions about his Southern Reach trilogy (the first of which, Annihilation, is soon to be a film), the writing process, climate change, gen

      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Momento

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Momento - Jeffery Donaldson

      /webook_preview_excerpt.htmluZ[FJ_7.aozhj´0(223HAV*Caϱ7I<%ANp7777?}S֜7az}3gg|my{N)8#|ss0kq̷'gƱtn=cp`O!c[)d vbP!eן^ܹN׏Yݚly'?9d Ӳ5/)a>Xޕ&s1й{7_gu~R_%!;0?+c."݊u3Zf>2bqo~|]=`C縞%mo>o#k/8-eYrb~?⽐C7 הz?c"5捃 Aa);_5e=XR)!ۗ OIsCnsQdkuy/lyX#a#&%^AL!ׅekǙ{}8 1Cb,m$wC^088U9mӻ ,11艇\Ni#L-pw~v.bsʺ O` , {/P~-xVzK # `{`JxO8US){"osC-u󄋙Ȇ6m# 21^T(U{M~ ,k Lx0N Ӱ8QF;caKi5|/΃W"y}1 $FqJX8&"158>9[c1H\^?D|˻ng1?D^6Fy`R9LWc+W=ĬD;osް 9ekB_7m@ơ,0 WԘ;i=Rc>`6-1bڕ1>`nd"`xQ=k'Wh+Mb:NPeVf¡arce +Dk{7Nq!=V2}ׇx8`3T(TsW9L3҃Vtx/B30!fT"2 p%RިWٛ^XKDKazG>DFk .+.o첇1%~`PO*gz>抿6C,ax|qiV^`x M^C;[L!Lw?</ E^zG<[?c-}M $AXx:0$,OI 1~C>>H7m 3Mpk;0r}?+|= Z! af4GD QJ2m 4B1]wE ɫ" (C2,2Ͻ;mȤ=1)|ɯ`&h91ބ l?{aü_BV20L!f TcKSkʻG\&$L({";)`~6jV?>pMOaD$ѝ|ߊ AM&9Ғ; nD6;BJPf$#@l1;^h}U<ز"i[ "26UZ%3[[Am$!pۇTU^ѪS JrUqpx[TשvL}HM!վS~!X8A ޑg3D3+.WDw5)-Tg:3h--w$qBA!K쪪]1.ʑz"u{b3d{}z;SԂ4)Tk6 qMӉGy3.wБ[V6װ`oԾ6` =0l@v)ƃ{DʳR_FS{ g Uט05gͬ!]F܂:&ڹ  Ӱ/OفGL%j>q>&VYmkTF6=`kSb=jjC X5L$9lH`BZ~kl(J̝3R:63|*W{H4ua!Mt+,0g{Ed@E hls+FLR٧}-fWFךXkY"% _dS/̠AZ" +dU9rjbex+)\/KXgS"-m,`ClPK#60Lv7:<|@Iŵ=؅G00rWaDZ1sK(fFDSŠ U0z}6E}+iO쭉˼.JTF34%V,nk)F);uegR+6UтTBF<7p@e~r`R15I!(A^MR_gǒd+JQF`95.!fþM&_!Hzr!w/nt3"7W4tѪY0U5!K09 hOXg];+sAaG\  b:9c [-evﻜ7cy,R3{a6 QK*FԡREWZM-G[ )5YF_CoQOmE`uq8vيF5X+,{ߨcK^ Z sks0C=Y;ZxOd*dA;z%\;񤒙M_V,o)~Zhnr}"!8Mn@Vǎ<MҐkiZGft|pEuK2BrqH'q>uCpUaZLh2z˹ ڙqJ|eN k4X9 rzB0㴾<]-!g&Es?x%է׬v5.a\U۳u "gIl,Xvc, >냨6 R/}1gŽ)Zw]{1K{tid~i' $Җ=Xz4NW !E.]O56TnZVr&a EP yi*bvYW.87 t80PMVˍ"+)Taa0nԑUsb mrs[ \ZcYl)<; 1فj~yZY!?36b1"\۾߬iL=iZʨ2c@RKT;VY ݹo(2}Y$ZR=ܛnrlzioGuJVK$g?Y-ء~CzoM*`OuN@(DӇ׵j޽E4r콰]6|$wGLܙrRtmB"熆aULɎ<;R2-$z~:XHvU+\S?vʯ sp  Q}6M T]rWem'quʌer=MwCXG&}4U8@1 .swfvb='[ISw7{- 6XG C6El*dLO쵃gG`nkX[c&DMh5Şus;Hn5nDgc`TlCd܋xHmJ6.2nc#k$ۏ&D]áL;QkPN) ?(csU?ڄWQMWlY}g}oF_u`Rڻ>oMܨZ=GTYR5Q)d${iq,FzvYû#ESJS0`? a1+
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1