Try Not to Get Too Attached

By (author): Robin Richardson

Using line drawings, colour and text, Robin Richardson transposes the sensibility of poetry into illustrated works, creating bite-sized, artistic meditations on the terribly wonderful, malleable and absurd experience of being alive. Richardson’s intuitive works—inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts—are drawn from fleeting, conscious contact with various notions and emotions; they feel their way around meaning and what it is to be human.

It’s here, amongst animal imagery and Jungian psychological concepts, that the viewer can, if not careful, become lost in a collection of unsettling yet playful art: themes of loss, fear and euphoria are materially manifested through felt pen and pencil crayon. Within these works of art are scraps of consciousness, demons brought into the light of day and shared as if to say, clearly: you are not alone.

AUTHOR

Robin Richardson

Robin Richardson is also the author of Grunt of the Minotaur (Insomniac Press, 2011) and Sit How You Want (Signal Editions/Véhicule Press, 2019), which won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. She holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence, where she received the Joan T. Baldwin scholarship and the John B. Santoianni Award (awarded by the Academy of American Poets). She has been published in many journals including Tin House, Arc, The Berkeley Poetry Review, The Malahat Review, and The Cortland Review. Her work has been shortlisted for the ReLit award and longlisted for the CBC Poetry Award. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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Dimensions:

120 Pages
6.20in * 6.20in * .40in
200.00gr
.44lb

Published:

November 05, 2019

Publisher:

Book*hug Press

ISBN:

9781771665506

Book Subjects:

ART / Individual Artists / 

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Language:

eng

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