E. M. Corpus’ The Yellow-Haired Girl in New Ekphrastic Book

Edward M Corpus (that’s me, by the way ) is one of fifteen visual artists plus twenty honorable mentions whose featured art served as inspiration for one hundred thirty works of poetry and prose in Vision and Verse: A Fusion of Poetry, Prose, Art and Photography. The front cover painting is by Briahn Kelly-Brennan.

This gorgeous book edited by poet Les Bernstein was just published this July by the California Writers Club, one of the nation’s oldest professional writers’ clubs. Our local chapter of the CWC is the Central Coast Writers Association, of which I’m also a member. Several Monterey area writers contributed poetry and prose to this book.

Longtime followers of my visual art may recognize this submission to the ekphrastic collection, The Yellow-Haired Girl on page 40 of Vision and Verse. Poets Jim Wolff, Mary Langer Thompson and Roger Lubeck contributed poetry and prose inspired by my painting.

“Ekphrasis” is a literary description or commentary on a visual work of art. It’s a word of Eighteenth Century origin for an ancient literary practice, Homer’s Iliad being an early example containing ekphrastic references.

Vision and Verse: A Fusion of Poetry, Prose, Art and Photography is available for purchase on Amazon.