Poetry. Art. VAN GOGH IN POEMS, written in Vincent's voice, comments on specific drawings and paintings, while discussing the artist's creative process and state of mind. The book includes 18 images of his drawings from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Renowned art critic John Berger writes about the book: "At least three big films have been made about the life of Vincent van Gogh. This book of sparse poems is, however, the best film so far made about him. The words seem to have been written with the same pen as he used to make the drawings and sketches chosen for the book. Carol Dine's observation of the drawings equals his observation of what he was drawing. Her words are strung on his life-line."

Author City: BROOKLINE, MA USA

Carol Dine is the author of two books of poetry and is widely published in literary magazines, including THE BITTER OLEANDER, Blue Mesa Review, Prairie Schooner, and Salamander. Her essays have appeared in the anthologies TO MEND THE WORLD: WOMEN REFLECT ON 9/11 and Living on the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer, and in The Boston Globe. She received the Frances Locke Memorial Award from the Bitter Oleander Press for a poem from her series based on the art of Van Gogh and is the recipient of the Sword of Hope Award from the American Cancer Society for her journal "Treatments," published in the Boston Herald. She is a public speaker on surviving breast cancer and has been a poet-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ragdale, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. She teaches at Suffolk University and lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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