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Moon. Kathryn Cowles. Oil on canvas. 2012., and: Clouds. Kathryn Cowles. Acrylic on canvas. 2013
- Colorado Review
- Center for Literary Publishing
- Volume 44, Number 1, Spring 2017
- pp. 124-126
- 10.1353/col.2017.0015
- Article
- Additional Information
“Clouds. Kathryn Cowles. Acrylic on canvas. 2013”: This is an ekphrastic poem in the tradition of Homer’s descriptions of Achilles’s shield in which the described artwork seems to contain movement and narrative. It starts out as a painting of a woman in her apartment, swoops out through the city block and cityscape and into the sky and ends as a painting of people flying in airplanes through clouds. The title takes the form of a museum placard.