Etching the Ghost
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Poet and painter Cathleen Cohen artfully paints a compelling sequence of scenes and portraits encompassing joy, freedom, violence, trauma, and the challenge of facing mortality: ones own as well as that of lost or faltering beloveds. In Cohens skillful hands, poems become an occasion for questioning - How long will we last / as witness, as echo? - and for cherishing what the speaker tries to ... hold then release / into brushstrokes. Cohen vividly depicts a search for healing and wholeness, promising, If air shatters / into fault lines and shards / I will reach / to collect what flies out / and give voice. Cohens book deftly weaves a multifaceted tapestry of lived experiences through poems that will break your heart and stir your soul. - Dilruba Ahmed, author of Bring Now the AngelCathleen Cohen writes of trying to paint this landscape / without myself in it, distilling a familiar ideal of aesthetic objectivity, of abstraction released from realistic depiction. Yet even as she imagines the line / sketching itself, Cohen is sharply aware of a deeper ineradicable subjectivity, a jitter, a twitch, glints and shards / I cant obscure. In poems that anatomize abuse as a knot I cant / unknot, Cohen demonstrates how art transforms the devastating into the crucial. Thus cant unknot becomes cant obscure. Thus my stiffening tongue loosens to speak eloquently. I love distortions, Cohen writes - and how essential to our human understanding are the supposed distortions of subjective art.- Nathalie F. Anderson, author of StainCathleen Cohen picked up a pen. The point ? To tell the truth. She picked up a brush. Two different arts. Two different methods of working, but what looks simple is more complex than you might think. As a matter of fact, dont think. Feel and know. Some people will avoid the truth by calling it Art. By saying its beautiful. They wont be wrong but they could go for more. Co
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