![]() The reader enters the communal exchange through evocative images and turns of phrase applied like fresh brush strokes, extending to us the far reach of Vincent's anguished yet enchanted universe."" -Charles Davidson, author of Bone Dead, and Rising: Vincent van Gogh and the Self before God ""This paean to Vincent evokes the link between art and prayer: how his faith was as close to his canvas as brush and paint. ""Sharon Fish Mooney engages Vincent van Gogh's artistry within her poetic imagination as a sacred space shared between them. As these poems reflect, Van Gogh's poetic imagination was best expressed in blossoming orchards, starry nights, sheaves of wheat, final harvests, and in his signature sunflowers-a metaphor for his own life, lifting petals to the sky, bending toward heaven. In these ekphrastic sonnets, the author reflects on themes Van Gogh returned to over and over again in his brief but intense journey from evangelist and pastor-in-training to painter of peasants, still lifes and growing things. ""We are surrounded by poetry on all sides,"" Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) once wrote to his brother Theo.
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