The Store of Joys: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art's Fiftieth Anniversary
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Book Description
To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the North Carolina Museum of Art plans to stage several special events involving all the arts in the state. As a part of this celebration, the Museum invited some of the state's major writers and poets to contribute responses to works from the Museum's permanent collection. The contributors were asked to submit a previously unpublished poem or a work of short fiction or creative nonfiction that connected the written word with the visual representation. The book that evolved from this project includes new works from forty-five writers and poets. Each written piece appears adjacent to a full-color reproduction of the artistic piece which inspired the writer. The anthology includes 19 poems, 13 non-fiction essays, and 13 fiction pieces. For example, Alan Shapiro responded to the image of a victorious hero on an ancient Greek vase by composing a poem about men weeping_and more generally about notions of sexuality, a subject he has examined in his recent work. Inspired by Milton Avery's "Blue Landscape," Lee Smith wove a haunting tale about a lonely little girl named Daisy who finds solace with an "orchard girl" on a nearby ridge. With The Store of Joys, the Museum has created a lasting tribute to its own collection and to the literary genius for which the state has become so well known.
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Poets and writers contributing to The Store of Joys: Betty Adcock, James Applewhite, Daphne Athas, Gerald Barrax, Doris Betts, Linda Beatrice Brown, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Fred Chappell, Angela Davis-Gardner, Ann Deagon, Wilma Dykeman, Charles Edward Eaton, Clyde Edgerton, Anderson Ferrell, Marianne Gingher, Jim Grimsley, Allan Gurganus, R.S. Gwynn, William Harmon, David Brendan Hopes, John Kessel, Romulus Linney, Pete Makuck, Margaret Maron, Jill McCorkle, Michael McFee, Tim McLaurin, Heather Ross Miller, Robert Morgan, Lawrence Naumoff, Michael Parker, Deborah Pope, Joe Ashby Porter, Reynolds Price, Gibbons Ruark, James Seay, David Sedaris, Alan Shapiro, Lee Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, Max Steele, Julie Suk, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Robert Watson, and Jonathan Williams
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The Store of Joys: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art's Fiftieth Anniversary,Huston Paschal,North Carolina Museum of Art,John F Blair Pub,0895872072,American literature,Antiques & Collectibles,Antiques/Collectibles,Art,Art and literature,General,Literary collections,North Carolina,Raleigh
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