Sturgeon's Law: Ekphrastic Pleasure

Ekphrastic Pleasure

It's odd--I don't consider myself especially fond of ekphrastic poetry, but this upcoming issue of The Eleventh Muse has the following:

Two ekphrastic poems in it
One poem about Van Gogh
Two other ekphrastic poems that I wrote "This was very close" personal notes about
One more ekphrastic poem promised from a friend of mine who writes a lot of good ekphrastic work

I'm still pretty skeptical of the subgenre overall, but obviously you can get the good stuff through to me. I'm glad about that, really.

# posted by Steven D. Schroeder @ 7:16 PM

Comments:

Being the author of the Van Gogh poem, I'd hardly call it ekphrastic, since it's not about art, per se. Maybe it's ekphrastic by proxy? ;-)

# posted by

Amanda Auchter : November 12, 2005 10:59 PM

Yes, it's not ekphrastic--I just included it because it was about an artist, so it was in the ballpark.

# posted by

Steven D. Schroeder : November 12, 2005 11:37 PM