Inventions and Variations - Wd Frank

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Résumé :
Multi-award-winning poet, artist, and historian WD Frank gathers a selection of previously published work into one volume with the addition of ten new poems inspired by a deep dive into the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Enhancing the poems are samples of Frank's paintings in watercolor, acrylic, and oil, several of which were created especially for this collection. ----------- WD Frank's poems are not bound by time. They take you to liminal spaces, through spirals of seasons, from Europe to Seattle to the shrub-steppe to the afterlife. Frank sweeps centuries, brings us ancient voices, myth, war-and wildflowers, nighthawks, and symphonies. A buttermilk moon. Wherever he takes you, Frank's words breathe and shimmer on the page. -Keely Murphy Pickerel, award-winning poet, author of This Steady Place The luminous poems in Inventions and Variations remind us of the fragility of things, asking us to reflect on what we've loved, what we've lost, and where we might find solace. You will be moved by the scale, beauty, weave and musings of WD Frank's poems. The way he dances here with words, time, and ideas is transporting. -Terry Martin, award-winning poet, author of The Light You Find...

Biographie:
WD Frank is an artist, musician, writer, and occasional professor of history from Yakima, WA. In addition to regional honors for poetry (including the Tom Pier Prize in 2004, 2016, and 2021), his two books on Russian sport and recent contribution to a collection of essays published in Austria received Ullr awards from the International Ski History Association in 2015, 2019, and 2025. His articles have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Journal of Sport History, Ski History Magazine, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and Suomen Urheiluhistoriallisen Seuran Vuosikirja, Finland's sport history yearbook. McFarland Publishers released his latest book, Under Mountain Shadows: Kay Kershaw, Lesbian Eco-Warrior of the Pacific Northwest, in 2024. He is currently working on a series of entries for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Sport and Exercise, forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2026.Since 2006, Frank's paintings have received numerous honorable mentions and awards at Larson Gallery's Central Washington Artists' Exhibition in Yakima and at Boxx Gallery in Tieton, WA. His work is also included in the Central Washington Artist Permanent Collection at the Yakima Valley Museum....