Lydia was not only the wife and collaborator of Don Freeman (author of "Corduroy"), she was also an artist in her own right. Indeed, Don once wrote "Of the two of us, Lydia is the better artist!" But she tended to set her own artistic talent aside until after her husband passed away. In 1988 she moved to Zürich, Switzerland to be closer to her family and continued to develop her own artwork. Her fine watercolors and oils slowly transformed into abstract designs, often retaining an organic kernel...
The Price of Scarlet (University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose)
by Brianna Noll
A honeycomb long vacated by honeybees still possesses an "echo of the swarm, / a lingering song ." Living things are made and make themselves: "My bones came first. / Like long needles, / they knitted muscle / and tendon / and tissue and skin. / Filled themselves / with marrow." In her debut collection, Brianna Noll fuses the scientific and fantastic, posing probing questions that explore the paradoxes of experience. Interweaving themes of creation, art, and nature, the poet gives voice to anima...