Poetry. A genre almost invented by this multifarious talent—poem-memoir or prose-poem-memoir—this text, part of a series that King has begun to publish, brings to bear his talents both as writer and visual artist, as he contemplates some heroes—Hartley, Pound, H. D., Williams, Demuth, Sheeler, Giotto, Nijinksy, Virginia Woolfe and her sister, Vanessa, Roger Fry, and perhaps most significantly, Emily Carr. This book contains the autobiography of a painting. The personal knowledge of "Paintings stay alive because people look at them. And when they don't, they die."

Author Hometown: BROOKLYN, NY USA



About the author: Basil King, a prolific, widely collected painter and a writer, first went to Black Mountain at 16. His paintings are in many public and private collections, including Yale University and the New York Public Library. His books of poetry include 77 BEASTS: BASIL KING'S BEASTIARY and MIRAGE: A POEM IN 22 SECTIONS.