Blue Period in Seattle

Selected Poems ( 1991 - 2011 )

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
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Author: John W. Gorski ISBN: 9781462054176
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: October 3, 2011
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: John W. Gorski
ISBN: 9781462054176
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: October 3, 2011
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

John Gorskis Blue Period in Seattle traffics in a play of atmosphere, both meteorological and psychological. These atmospheres evoke a kind of emotional synesthesia: I get off the bus/ at 64th and Linden/ because the dark organ chords of alcohol laughter/ are playing out of tune. Blue Period in Seattle dares us to partake of a fretted, penumbral world, haunted by muses who are alternately flushed from the rose pink immanence /of the morning horizon and morbidly pale: her pre-Raphaelite facea lunar masque /advancing out of the night. It is not surprising that Gorski is drawn to the lives of the artists, and to their progenitor muses. These artists record their findings and, in the process, see what others tend to overlook. Fascinated by artists in their old age and even decrepitude, Gorski seems to be asking himself what the upshot of such a vocation, finally, turns out to bewhat, in short, are the wages of art? Yet in other poems, such as the The Five-Year-Old Sheriff, Gorskis droll side reigns, as the mood strikes. All in all, Blue Period in Seattle represents a particularly fertile moment in Gorskis oeuvre. For those as yet unfamiliar with his work, its a great place to start.
-Deborah Woodard,
author of Platos Bad Horse

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John Gorskis Blue Period in Seattle traffics in a play of atmosphere, both meteorological and psychological. These atmospheres evoke a kind of emotional synesthesia: I get off the bus/ at 64th and Linden/ because the dark organ chords of alcohol laughter/ are playing out of tune. Blue Period in Seattle dares us to partake of a fretted, penumbral world, haunted by muses who are alternately flushed from the rose pink immanence /of the morning horizon and morbidly pale: her pre-Raphaelite facea lunar masque /advancing out of the night. It is not surprising that Gorski is drawn to the lives of the artists, and to their progenitor muses. These artists record their findings and, in the process, see what others tend to overlook. Fascinated by artists in their old age and even decrepitude, Gorski seems to be asking himself what the upshot of such a vocation, finally, turns out to bewhat, in short, are the wages of art? Yet in other poems, such as the The Five-Year-Old Sheriff, Gorskis droll side reigns, as the mood strikes. All in all, Blue Period in Seattle represents a particularly fertile moment in Gorskis oeuvre. For those as yet unfamiliar with his work, its a great place to start.
-Deborah Woodard,
author of Platos Bad Horse

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