Molly Peacock
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Born from an essay selected by David Foster Wallace for 'The Best American Essays 2007,' [this book] is at once a biography of an extraordinary eighteenth-century woman and a fascinating meditation on late-life creativity."--Front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Born into a patrician American family in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mary Hiester Reid was determined to be a painter and left behind women’s design schools to enter the art world of men. After she married fellow artist George Reid, she returned with him to his home country of Canada. There she set about creating over 300 stunning still life and landscape paintings, inhabiting a rich, if sometimes difficult, marriage, coping with a younger...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a psychoanalyst became a painter after surviving a stroke, her longtime patient, distinguished and beloved poet Molly Peacock, took up a unique task. The Analyst is a new, visceral, twenty-first century "in memoriam" of ambiguous loss in which Peacock brilliantly tells the story of a decades-long patient-therapist relationship that now reverses and continues to evolve. Peacock invigorates the notion of poetry as word-painting: A tapestry of images,...
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