Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud
Shearsman Books, $25 pb, 160 pp, 9781848611780
Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud by Barry Hill
With his new volume of poetry, Barry Hill has set himself the challenge of writing a book focused on the visual art of the recently deceased Lucian Freud without, excepting the cover image, accompanying reproductions of the paintings to which he responds. Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud is a collection of ekphrastic poems born out of the obsessive return to a body of painting that spanned much of the latter half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first.
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