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Muse

Muse

by Dawn Marie Kresan (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

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Synopsis

Beginning with an epigraph by Robert Graves, which asserts that woman is muse or she is nothing, the poems in Muse explore the concepts of influence, creativity, and gender by evoking the tragic figure of Elizabeth Siddal.

As a model, then pupil, she married the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and although an artist and poet in her own right, Siddal is best known as a Victorian muse and the inspiration for her husband's paintings.

In sensual and evocative language, Dawn Marie Kresan shifts voices and perspectives, from Siddal's loss and heartbreak over her stillborn daughter to the poet's lighthearted reproach of artist William Holman Hunt's depiction of the Lady of Shalott.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 80
 Publisher: Tightrope Books
Published: 01 Jun 2013
ISBN 10: 1926639642
ISBN 13: 9781926639642

Media Reviews
In her subtle and quietly insistent re-telling of the story of Elizabeth Siddal, Dawn Marie Kresan turns Robert Graves' well-known words--'Woman is muse or she is nothing'--inside out and upside down. . . . Wryly questioning her own poetic authority, Kresan treats the reader to versions of Siddal and takes us on delightfully imaginative flights of fancy. --Shawna Lemay, Winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Stephan G. Stephannson Award for Poetry
Explores a variety of themes around the concept of being female . . . written with great skill and sensitivity, exposing the plight of the female in a world run by men. --Rachel Carney, createdtoread.com
Author Bio
Dawn Marie Kresan is a poet whose work has appeared in a number of literary journals, including the Antigonish Review, Contemporary Verse 2, the Dalhousie Review, Event, Lichen, Prairie Journal, and the Windsor Review. She lives in Kingsville, Ontario, Canada.