Author Description

In her third collection of erasure poetry, Shirley Glubka tries something new, pairing each poem, once written, with a painting. For this reversal of the ekphrastic process (when a poem is written in response to a work of visual art) Glubka has chosen paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Georgia O'Keefe, Agnes Pelton, and others. The result is a meditative blend by a philosophically inclined poet. The 20 erasure poems in A Single Drop Was Full are derived from the works of Isaac Babel, Georg Büchner, Paul Celan, Stephen Crane, Knut Hamsun, and Lucretius.