Dream Prints

By Loretta Bonnier Anawalt

From domestic commonplaces Loretta Bonnier Anawalt has invented a surreal evocation in prose and verse poems, presented as a pattern of dreams "printed" on the mind as one might observe images emerging in a photographer's darkroom. The cohesive intelligence is that of the mature woman, observant, reflective, speculative, larger-than-life, in a world that affords ample matter for her voracious imagination. Anawalt's sequence of poems is accompanied by a series of paintings by the eminent artist Robert Helm. With his own original surrealism, Helm's works counterpoint the poetry by their distanced repose, and the Jungian resonances which require quite a different kind of response to those we bring to the Freudian passions of the printed page. Yet they have much in common with Anawalt's poetry, in the ways they play upon our expectations with juxtaposed and disjunctive images, and refuse to yield to trite or superficial perusal. Here, art and literature intertwine to provide great evocative power, mystery, and timeless intellectual pleasures.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0910055513
• ISBN13: 9780910055512
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Eastern Washington University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 12.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Dream Prints:Poems

Dream Prints:Poems opens the imagination to the landscape of emotion caught in the stilled silence of reflection. Mundane events evolve into extraordinary adventure while the images by Bob Helm provide a private space for contemplation. This book gives us permission to engage with the most sensual parts of ourselves. Our own imagination and dreams are brought to the surface to enjoy without apology or shame.