ISBN | 9781779331502 |
Pages | 106 |
Dimensions | 216x216 mm |
Published | 2024 |
Publisher | Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Zimbabwe |
Format | Paperback |
Of poets, gods, ghosts, irritants and storytellers: Diagramatologically unleashed
by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka
The three Ps of art: Poetry, Painting and Photography are conjoined with essays in this artistic offering that deals with what it means to be a poet, what constitute a poem, art, art forms, content, and the poet's vocation. It consists of 33 poems, 40 paintings, 7 essays, 10 photographs and an artist statement. Borrowing from the statement by Robert Duncan that poetry comes from God, and twisting it to mean that anything that comes from God and has a life of its own is a god, the poet here becomes a god. He is a god in the form of Adam who is beholden to the earth. He knows there is no heaven for him, so through poetry he creates a heaven for him and his readers using words, images, metaphors, light, lines, diagrams, circles, space, photography...