If Not for These Wrinkles of Darkness: Rembrandt van Rijn: A Self-Portrait

by Stephen Frech

Overview

Winner of the Sixth Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize, selected by Pattiann Rogers.

Seventeenth century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn's life, known to us almost exclusively through his paintings and thin written documentation, is the stuff of real drama: he survived several plagues, two wives, and four children. Selected by Pattiann Rogers as the winner of the Sixth Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize, these lyric poems convey the emotional life of the artist and show him as deeply human: flawed, burdened, sympathetic, and desperately honest about himself and others.

Stephen Frech has published widely in magazines and journals. He lives in Chicago.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781893996137
Publisher:	White Pine Press
Publication date:	04/01/2001
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

Table of Contents

I
	Endure a Little	11
	The Windmill	13
	Who Lives Alone Longs for Mercy	15
	Descent from the Cross	16
	Spring Gathers in the Ground Below Me	17
	Letter to Jan Lievens, 1633	19
	Female Nude of a Woman I've Never Seen Naked	21
	Simeon in the Temple	22
	Rhyme for the Procuress in Springtime	23
	Christ at Emmaus	24
II
	Respice in Faciem Christi	25
	The Green Crawler Finds its Way	27
	Rembrandt in the Studio with Pupils	28
	Self-Portrait with Saskia: The Prodigal Son in the Tavern	29
	Chiaroscuro	31
	Cornelia II	32
	Sketches Toward the Flight into Egypt	33
	Letter to Cornelis Anslo, 1641	37
	I'm Cross with God Who Has Wrecked this Generation	38
	Who'd Have Thought the Owl so Fierce?	39
III
	My Leman on the Road	41
	Letter to Carel Fabritius, September 1643	43
	The Adoration of the Shepherds	44
	The Hog	45
	Song for Titus When He Asks for a Second Dessert	46
	Bird Cries from the Nest in the Eaves at Morning: Self-Portrait	47
	Hendrickje Stoffels	48
	Crows, Just Before Flight	49
	Awake at Night Ruined by the Mocking	50
IV
	I Would Be Clad in Christ's Skin	51
	Woman Bathing	53
	The Bricklayer's Sled	54
	Letter to Carel Fabritius, October 1654	56
	The Denial of Peter	58
	Prayer for the Maker	59
	To Live this Close to Deer	60
	Farmhouses that at Anchor Seemed	61
	Return of the Lost Son	63
	Chronology	65