Bernard M. Jackson, Reach
"Combines scholarship of informed research with inspired analysis, while constantly evincing an egaging flair for narrative. A truly brilliant study!"

Penny Lynn Dunn, Editor, Tacenda
"This is a work of pure genius . . . I highly recommend this valuable volume."

The Journal
"This is a provocative book. And all the better for it."

The Fullosia
"The poem approaches literary brilliance in approximating the mock-heroism of an Alexander Pope."

Wild Violet
"I would recommend this book as an entertaining overview of the life of one of modern art's legends."

Tears in the Fence
"Quick-to-read and absorbing…original to an unaccustomed degree, suggests that there is still plenty that can be done with the genre."

Book Description
This epic biographical poem chronicles the life of the dynamic and controversial American painter Jackson Pollock. The magnificent narrative chronicles Pollock's reckless, adventurous, and often desperate life, from his beginnings in the American northwest through his pioneering of a revolutionary new painting technique that came to be known as Abstract Expressionism to his death behind the wheel of a car on Long Island when he was only 44 years old. Written entirely in iambic trimeter, the poem captures the essence of the brilliant yet tortured artist in language that is as breathtaking as a Pollock painting: spontaneous, beautiful, and haunting, with bursts of energy that touch the soul and make it soar.


About the Author
Martin Gray is the author of Blues for Bird and is one of the world's foremost scholars of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poetry. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This epic biographical poem chronicles the life of the dynamic and controversial American painter Jackson Pollock. The magnificent narrative chronicles Pollock's reckless, adventurous, and often desperate life, from his beginnings in the American northwest through his pioneering of a revolutionary new painting technique that came to be known as Abstract Expressionism to his death behind the wheel of a car on Long Island when he was only 44 years old. Written entirely in iambic trimeter, the poem captures the essence of the brilliant yet tortured artist in language that is as breathtaking as a Pollock painting: spontaneous, beautiful, and haunting, with bursts of energy that touch the soul and make it soar.

Author Biography: Martin Gray is the author of Blues for Bird and Idylls of the King. He is one of the world's foremost scholars of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poetry. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

FROM THE CRITICS

Tears in the Fence