Bøger af Barbara K. Fischer

Poetry. Winner of the Washington Prize for 2013. A pregnancy memoir that unfolds through a series of poems about art, the book engages images of maternity--from the Madonna to the monster--to explore kinship, community, and mortality. The radical changes of a woman's body and role transform not just the individual but art, culture, and language themselves.

Turning to contemporary poems about the visual arts that foreground and interrogate a museum setting, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates the particular importance of the museum as a cultural site that is both inspiration and provocation for poets. It bridges the "dual canon" in contemporary poetry by analyzing museum-sponsored anthologies.