Diane Arbus Goes Shopping: Poems - Paperback

by Eve Wood (Author)

A four-part collection of poems and epistolary fiction by Eve Wood, accompanied by darkly humorous drawings and paintings from her thirty-year archive.

What did Jackson Pollock say to the tree that killed him? Or the wives of Henry VIII behind closed doors? In her humorous, lustful, and insightful book, Eve Wood imagines the hidden lives (and deaths) of contemporary artists and the women who married Henry VIII, as well as rendering the coded amorous exchanges between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West and pulling wisdom from under Abraham Lincoln's hat. Eve Wood takes her subjects beyond the looking glass, turns history in on itself and sees our contemporary moment reflected there. Laughing along the way, surprised by her discoveries and her art, readers will find this book to be a panacea for dark times.

Color illustrations throughout.

Author Biography

Eve Wood is a Los Angeles-based artist and art critic. Her writing and poetry has been widely published in magazines and literary journals such as The New Republic, Best American Poetry, The Denver Quarterly, North American Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Massachusetts Review, The Santa Monica Review, Poetry, The Seattle Review, and many others. Collected by and collaborating with notable people in Hollywood and the arts, Eve Wood is an artist's artist. She holds a BFA and MFA (1992, 1994) from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA from UC Irvine (1996) in creative writing. She is the recipient of a Jacob Javits Fellowship and a California Community Foundation Fellowship. Her drawings and paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries such as Susanne Vielmetter, Western Project, Ochi Projects, and Track 16 Gallery, which currently represents her. She is the author and/or illustrator of seven collections of poetry and chapbooks.