[Stylist] April 9th poem

[Barbara HAMMEL]

It is The Scream and one convention, in the Tactile Art room a lady brought a bunch of paintings that she had done by choosing different fabrics to represent each color and differing amounts of batting between the fabric and the cardboard to represent the shade of the color. I was mesmerized by this. She had the Mona Lisa, a Mary Casat one, the one of the melting clocks, some Picassos, The Scream, and a bunch of others. I guess they are housed at a museum in Chicago — don't ask me which one because I forget, probably Fine Arts?  
Barbara Hammel

> On Apr 10, 2020, at 08:46, Linda Lambert via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I think it is "The Scream," by Edvard Munch," which is a painting that has
> been copied into pop culture into many different products.   - that is my
> feeling.  But, I think it is very important that she NOT put this
> information with the poem - for her poem stands alone as a work of art.
> Appropriation of an art work image and transformed into a literary work -
> Lynda
> 
> https://www.edvardmunch.org/the-scream.jsp
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2020 9:31 AM
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> 
> Hey Barbara,
> 
> I like this poem--thanks for sharing. And perhaps you should make free verse
> more a part of your wheelhouse.
> 
> Is this the painting by Haronomous Bausch (and I'm sure I've spelled that
> incorrectly)?Where did you find a tactile version? 
> 
> Again, nice job.
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara
> HAMMEL via Stylist
> Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 9:03 PM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Barbara HAMMEL
> Subject: [Stylist] April 9th poem
> 
> I am doing the 30 poems in 30 days challenge and thought I would share with
> you my today's poem. It was to be an ekphrastic, which means a poem that is
> inspired by a piece of art or a sculpture. Usually I write highly structured
> poems so this free verse poem is an oddity in my collection. And, I realize
> it could have a better name but I'm putting the theme word in all of the
> titles. 
> 
> THE EKPHRASTIC SCREAM
> by Barbara Hammel
> 
> When I first learned about you
> I thought you were a crazy man
> Standing alone
> Head thrown back
> Mouth wide open
> Arms thrown out
> I had no understanding of paint
> 
> Then one day I met you
> On a bigger piece of cardboard
> Sewed in different textures
> Standing alone
> Hands over your ears
> Mouth open wide
> The world is too much
> People are walking away
> I know you now
> 
> I have held you in my arms
> Rocked you
> Swung with you
> Heard you scream for endless hours
> An ear-piercing shriek
> Hands covering your ears
> People walked away
> The world is too much
> Yes, I know you
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Barbara Hammel
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