Muse

Autorentext

Dawn Marie Kresan is an author, editor, and graphic designer. Her books include Muse (Tightrope Books 2013), and Derelict (Bilbioasis, forthcoming). She co-edited the anthologies Detours: An Anthology of Poets from Windsor & Essex County with Susan Holbrook (Palimpsest Press 2013), and Canadian Ginger with Kim Clarke (Oolichan Press 2017). Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals, includ- ing Antigonish Review, Carousel, CV2, Dalhousie Review, Event, Lichen, Prairie Journal, Queen's Quarterly, Vallum, and Windsor Review, and in the anthologies Whisky Sour Town (Black Moss Press 2013) and By the River (Urban Farmhouse Press 2017). Her poem "Evolution" was long listed for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2016. She lives in Kingsville, Ontario, with her husband and their daughter.

Klappentext

Muse connects and complicates gender and the role of the artist through a modern reinterpretation of the tragic figure of Elizabeth Siddal. As a model, then pupil, she married the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and although an artist and poet in her own right, Siddal is best known as a Victorian muse and the inspiration for her husband's paintings. In sensual and evocative language, Kresan holds nothing back, shifting voices and perspectives, and encompassing a wide range of emotions- from Siddal's loss and heartbreak over her stillborn daughter to the poet's lighthearted reproach of Hunt's depiction of The Lady of Shalott. This 2018 second edition of Kresan's compelling and inventive debut will surely increase its already popular standing among lovers of poetry, Pre- Raphelite art, and Victorian history. Through its skilled use of language, in both form and content, Muse conveys emotional depth and compassion, off-set by irreverant humour and wicked satire.