Revolving around the public and private lives of the great modern painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, this collection explores the artist’s relationship with her craft and her friendship with poet Rainer Maria Rilke and his wife, sculptor Clara Westhoff. Inspired by the artist’s numerous self-portraits, Bhatt transports the image of Modersohn-Becker to present-day Germany. This book-length sequence of poems presents a rich and fully conceived history of the inner and outer worlds of one of the century’s great modern painters.
Author Biography
Sujata Bhatt is a graduate of the Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop and the award-winning author of several volumes of poetry, including Monkey Shadows, Point No Point, Pure Lizard, and The Stinking Rose.
