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Author: Anna Audette, Suzanne Nothnagle. Ruins now occupy a special place in our contemporary landscape. The poems are lyrical and harsh, short and to the point, knowing and critical, like accents on the canvases.

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In earlier civilizations ruins were remainders and reminders of the glory of long passed times. People pondered what could still be seen of the palaces, great public buildings and places of worship. The everyday working world was left without any record to commemorate its importance. Ruins now occupy a special place in our contemporary landscape. Nearly everywhere there are vestiges of commercial buildings and machines that many people still remember as vital to their communities. Industrial progress has doomed them in the space of a few decades. They are the relics of America's industrial glory at mid Twentieth century: great structures erected to support the technologies that shaped the country we now live in. In this book of poems and paintings both poet and artist seek to memorialize the recent industrial past of America as both worker and machine fall into oblivion and the declining past yields to the ruthless changes of the present. Audette paints abandoned factories, ships, bridges, and large machines and much smaller artifacts such as discarded railroad couplings, carburetors and machine tools. In contrast, Nothnagle memorializes the intimate lives of the men and women who made and used these engines and devices in the workshops, now abandoned as they themselves have been; their triumphs and victories forgotten. The poems are lyrical and harsh, short and to the point, knowing and critical, like accents on the canvases. The titles say it all, Calling In, Change to Spare, Grudges, Two Ton Bucket, Yard Sale, Buddy, Chance, Funeral, and speak of frailty and strength, chance and misfortune unlike the machines she also writes about This machine was built to last, making parts to be assembled, parts that fit together like they were meant to, parts that always make sense, no matter what crazy people do to people around the world. That's the contrast the reader will find in these poems and paintings: The light and the dark, the majesty and glory of things that worked because of human ingenuity that are now lost because of that same human ingenuity in forging ruthless change as worker and machine are abandoned to the melancholy beauty found in the relics of our recent industrial past. Anna Held Audette is a prominent late twentieth century American painter and teacher with works in the National Gallery of Art, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the National Gallery of Science, NASA and a number of important regional museums and private collections. She was diagnosed with Fronto-Temporal Dementia in 2008 at the Adler Center for Geriatric Medicine at Yale. She is the author of two books including the classic The Blank Canvas: Inviting the Muse. Suzanne Nothnagle ran a small, specialized machine shop for 27 years. She is a graduate of Marlboro College and Dartmouth College. Her poetry has appeared in the Connecticut Review, Portrait, Still Puddle Poets, and The Anthology of New England Writers among others. She has worked for the American Precision Museum and several historical societies. She has also written an oral history of the machine tool industry in Windsor and Springfield, Vermont, an oral history of the Connecticut River, and a children's book. She lives in Hartland, Vermont, and currently teaches at Granite State College.

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Publisher
Bunker Hill Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1593731493
ISBN-13
9781593731496
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Book Title
Ruins : Poems and Paintings of a Vanishing America
Author
Suzanne Nothnagle, Anna Audette
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Art, Poetry
Number of Pages
80 Pages

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8.1in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
8.1in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz

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Our painter, Anna Held Audette, discovers beauty, even eloquence in industrial ruin, even as she implies the devastation -human and otherwise- that attends it. Suzanne Nothnagle's seemingly artless but in fact very canny repression of mere lyricism in her terse and acute poetic commentary seems superbly fitting. What a perfect blend of verbal and visual image is this collaboration! -- Sydney Lea, Vermont Poet Laureate, "Our painter, Anna Held Audette, discovers beauty, even eloquence in industrial ruin, even as she implies the devastation -human and otherwise- that attends it. Suzanne Nothnagle's seemingly artless but in fact very canny repression of mere lyricism in her terse and acute poetic commentary seems superbly fitting. What a perfect blend of verbal and visual image is this collaboration! " Sydney Lea, Vermont Poet Laureate, "Nothnagle's unsentimental words tell of lost self-worth, the human price of material progress. Audette's silent ruins and rusting castoffs, beautiful to look at, give off the stark breeze of mortality." -- John Walsh, director emeritus, J. Paul Getty Museum, "These large works provide us with a view of contemporary society's willingness to throw away valued material things. Tangentially they also raise the question of the manner in which our society throws away lives." -- --The Hartford Courant
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