Vermeer in Hell Paperback by Michael White

Product Details

• Publisher: Persea Books (2014-08-26)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 80 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780892554362
• Item Weight: 87.89 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

Through the paintings of Vermeer, Michael White explores new landscapes and transforms familiar ones in this extraordinary new collection of poems.

Through the paintings of Vermeer, Michael White explores new landscapes and transforms familiar ones in this extraordinary new collection of poems. This captivating masterwork transports us across eras and continents, from Confederate lynchings to the bombing of Dresden, through its lyrical inhabitations of some of Vermeer’s most revered paintings, each one magically described and renewed. More than mere ekphrasis, Michael White explores the transformative possibilities of great art in his fourth collection, winner of the 2013 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award.

About the Author

Michael White is the author of four collections of poetry and a memoir, Travels in Vermeer (Persea 2015), and has published widely in respected periodicals, including The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Western Humanities Review, and the Best American Poetry. His most recent collection is Persea’s Vermeer in Hell, winner of the Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award.  White teaches poetry and is presently chair of the Creative Writing department at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.