Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes Notations on a Landscape

This book was inspired by Rilke's SONNETS TO ORPHEUS. The watercolors were painted from the observed landscape of New York's Hudson River valley. From the Foreword: "...Rilke laments again that man's soul, unlike a god's, is 'split'. That fatal cleavage was already present in the first portrait of Orpheus... This is the Orpheus whose work will never be complete, for...Orpheus 'comes & goes.'... In that coming & going, in so many familiar places painter & poet tread common ground. What Wallace Stevens called the 'migratory passings to & fro' occur not only between painter & poet but, in this case, among, painter, poet, & translator." Excerpt: She was no longer that woman with the blue eyes/ who once had echoed through the poet's songs/ no longer the wide couch's scent & island,/ & that man's property no longer,/ ... She was already loosened like long hair,/ poured out like fallen rain. Order from Cross-Cultural Communications, 239 Wynsum Ave., Merrick, NY 11566-4725. Tel. 516-868-5635, FAX: 516-379-1901.