POEMS — Sally Schluter Tardella

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Charybdis

(Inspired by "The Odyssey" by Homer)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

Circle's Voyage Fulfilled

(Inspired by "Sonnet IX" by Edmund Spenser)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

Circling a Moment

(Inspired by "Piazza Di Spagna, Early Morning" by Richard Wilbur)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

From the Throat of Birds

(Inspired by "Roots And Leaves Themselves Alone" by Walt Whitman)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

Darkness Pulls in Everything

(Inspired by "You, Darkness" by Rainer Maria Rilke)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

Discordant Atoms

(Inspired by "Metamorphosis" by Ovid)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

Dirt Breathing a Small Breath

(Inspired by "Root Cellar" by Theodore Roethke)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

Flight to Catalina

(Inspired by "Flight to Catalina", by Erica Jong)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

Pathless Woods

(Inspired by "There is Pleasure in the Pathless Woods" by Lord Byron)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

Stars Threw Down Their Spears

(Inspired by "The Tyger" by William Blake)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

Stiff Twin Compasses

(Inspired by "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

Sweeter Rivers Pulsing

(Inspired by "Two Rivers" by Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

The Widening Gyre

(Inspired by "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

Turn Under Plow

(Inspired by "Plowman's Song" by Raymond Knister)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

Winding, Wound. Wounded Wind.

(Inspired by "Eurydice" by Harryette Mullen)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2013

Bluish 'mid the Burning Water

(Inspired by "Home-Thoughts from the Sea" by Robert Browning)

Color pencils, ink, collage paper scraps, and gouache on paper

11 x 11 inches

2012

POEMS

Using color and marks, I respond intuitively to the language of the poem. The words are visual, becoming the catalyst for the image. The drawings are a kind of music echoing the melody of the poem.