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A four-part collection of poems and epistolary fiction by Eve Wood, accompanied by darkly humorous drawings and paintings from her thirty-year archive.
What did Jackson Pollock say to the tree that killed him? Or the wives of Henry VIII behind closed doors? In her humorous, lustful, and insightful book, Eve Wood imagines the hidden lives (and deaths) of contemporary artists and the women who married Henry VIII, as well as rendering the coded amorous exchanges between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West and pulling wisdom from under Abraham Lincoln's hat. Eve Wood takes her subjects beyond the looking glass, turns history in on itself and sees our contemporary moment reflected there. Laughing along the way, surprised by her discoveries and her art, readers will find this book to be a panacea for dark times.
Color illustrations throughout.
Praise for SIX
"This book of historical persona poems, spoken by the six wives of Henry VIII, could only have been written by a poet of prodigious imaginative powers, skill, and an enormous curiosity. That poet is Eve Wood and SIX is a wonderful book." —Thomas Lux"Eve Wood's haunted and haunting ventriloquisms of sixteenth-century women remind me of John Berryman's hallucinatory Mistress Bradstreet. Like Berryman, Wood shows us what might be made of history if poets had their way. —Michael Collier
"Wood's use of returning and startling imagery pulls us into the haunting and heartless atmosphere into which each [of Henry VIII's wives] was thrown by marriage. [...] Equally remarkable ar the poet's divinings into these women's relationships with God and nature." —Kate Knapp Johnson
"Gorgeous and chilling." —Gail Willumsen
"These poems are a benediction — nuanced, so perfectly crafted in their loveliness [...] smart, savvy, tender and in many places, elegant and wise. Buy this book, and live more richly!"—John Fairfield Rice
Praise for past works
"Remarks on Color is a luminous tapestry of prose poetry that invites readers to embark on a chromatic odyssey. Wood’s stunning synthesis of familiar reality and surreal exaggeration illuminates the complex relationships, emotions and cultural associations we share with these spectral entities. As the amused reader considers the significance of each color in their own personal spectrum, Wood serves up a feast and critique of the colorful world in which we live. —Tyler Stallings
“Quickened by passion and imagination, the body of poems that makes up Love’s Funeral is astoundingly alive.” —Mark Strand
Praise for Eve Wood
"As a lay reader, I found [Wood's] poetry rich, challenging and instinct with energy." —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark
Foreword
Diane Arbus Goes Shopping
SIX
The Two V's
A Cadence for Redemption: Conversations with Abraham Lincoln