Arcimboldo's Bulldog: New And Selected Poems

Synopsis

In Arcimboldo's Famous Seventeenth-century Mannerist Portraits, The Sitter's Face Is Composed Of Organic Matter. In Subordinating A Mixture Of Elements Into An Unrelated Whole, Imagination Can Transform The Medium Of Expression Itself. Tim Liardet's Arcimboldo's Bulldog: New And Selected Poems Spans Nine Of His Ten Award-winning Collections And Adds New Poems, Fresh Produce, Reconfiguring His Life's Work To Date. The Book Draws On His Two T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted Collections The Blood Choir (2006) And The World Before Snow (2015). Vivid Images, Large Abstractions, Symbols, Allegory, Elegy, Provocation, Confession And Lyric Find A Necessary Place In His Work. Arcimboldo's Bulldog Records Achievement And Includes A Promissory Note Towards His Next Collection.