Anybody who paints and sees a sky green and pastures blue ought to be sterilized.
Adolph Hitler
Often there is a star
comes down from the blue
and lands in the deepest part
where a heart and the flesh
that beats it out
in a trickle of daylight and ash
does conspire to hold
all flying things "sacred"
as bombs and Eros
collide with the same surface
and mark their intent
with an obliteration
elemental as fire
but not as blood-soaked-through
with disasters and near losses
not of faith but of what faith has become
now that the object of sacrifice
is not fit for the faint of heart
because it is real.
When Comet Hyakutake
streaked close to earth last week,
a German scientific spacecraft made a
discovery that has astonished and
puzzled astrophysicists. The
comet was emitting X-rays
in a crescent pattern on
its sunward side.
The dead, 13 adults
and 3 small children, were found
in a circle around the remains of a
campfire, laid out on the bare
ground in a sunburst pattern.
Kristin Prevallet, Lead, Glass and Poppy
[The poem's title refers to materials in painter Anselm Kiefer's massive "Angel of History", a sculpture-painting of a huge corroded bomber (now in the D.C. National Gallery) which expresses a parallel sense of apocalyptic/historical doom & pathos].
Selección de enlaces:
- art-contemporain.eu.org.
Kiefer, Anselm [en línea].
Internet: <http://art-contemporain.eu.org/base/noms/724.html>. FR
[25 octubre 2005]. - Artchive.
Anselm Kiefer [en línea].
Internet: <http://www.artchive.com/artchive/K/kiefer.html>. EN
[25 octubre 2005]. - Artcyclopedia.
Anselm Kiefer [en línea].
Internet:<http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/kiefer_anselm.html>. EN
[25 octubre 2005]. - Metropolitan Museum of Art, The. New York.
Anselm Kiefer. Works on Paper 1969-1993. [en línea].
Internet: <http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/KIEFER/introduc.htm>. EN
[25 octubre 2005]. - onlinekunsy.de
Anselm Kiefer [en línea].
Internet: <http://www.onlinekunst.de/maerz/08_03_Kiefer_Anselm.htm>. DE
[25 octubre 2005]. - the-artists.org.
Anselm Kiefer [en línea].
Internet: <http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=581C56C8%2D0F97%2D42F5%2DA3223DB12C18136D>. EN
[25 octubre 2005]. - WebMuseum, Paris.
Kiefer, Anselm [en línea].
Internet: <http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/kiefer/>. EN
[25 octubre 2005].
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