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    An Artist’S Model and Other Poems
    An Artist’S Model and Other Poems
    An Artist’S Model and Other Poems
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    An Artist’S Model and Other Poems

    By David J. Murray

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    In An Artists Model and Other Poems, preferring to portray his modela woman with whom he has fallen in lovein words rather than in paint, author David J. Murray off ers an extended hymn of praise to her, expressing unresolved yearning throughout.

    Following a prologue setting the scene, he presents her with four gifts, each consisting of a set of twelve poems. Th e fi rst set of poems describes what its like spending Christmas without her; the second set of poems compares her to the Greek goddess Athena; the third set of poems likens her to a ballerina; and the fourth set of poems, written in summer, compares her to the beauty of the season.

    Between each set are entractes consisting of several poems that comment on the complexities of their situation. Th e collection ends with an epilogue that recalls the mood of the prologue.

    Reflecting the conflict between Murrays emotions and his sense of propriety with regard to his model, An Artists Model and Other Poems presents a cycle of poems that are unabashedly of the high-fl ung romantic genre.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 9, 2012
    ISBN9781475950465
    An Artist’S Model and Other Poems
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    David J. Murray

    David J. Murray has published twelve books of poetry. Born in 1937 and raised in Manchester, England, he earned a doctorate at the University of Cambridge. Now emeritus professor of psychology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and a resident of Toronto, he has published scholarly books, articles and encyclopaedia entries.

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      An Artist’S Model and Other Poems - David J. Murray

      Copyright © 2012 by David J. Murray

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-5048-9 (sc)

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-5047-2 (dj)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012917221

      iUniverse rev. date: 10/1/2012

      Contents

      Introduction

      Prologue

      An Artist’s Model

      Misunderstandings

      Nature Revealed #1

      Anger #1

      The Winds of Spring #1

      When the Light Shines Bright

      When the Snow Has Stopped #1

      Enhancement

      Twelve Days to Christmas

      Your Gift

      Shopping

      Christmas Lights

      Darkening Days

      Opening Gates

      Missing You

      Self-Searching

      Unities

      A White Christmas?

      Poinsettias

      Christmas Eve

      Here’s a Carol

      First Entr’acte

      The Happiness You Bring

      Advice to Myself

      Altarpiece

      To Bow and to Yield

      Too Deep?

      Giving

      Heavy Weather

      Trying So Hard

      Animalian

      Midnight

      Connecting

      Logic

      Time-Lapse

      Folly

      Horoscope

      Morning’s Day

      Apotheosis

      Twelve Poems to Athena

      Thy Throne

      Athenian Parapets

      Greek Islands

      A Mental Athena

      Opening Vistas

      Profligate

      Self-Seeking

      Disunities

      Athena without Fear?

      Why and Wherefore?

      Earth and Athena

      Athena Waits

      Second Entr’acte

      An April Day

      Something or Nothing

      Deep Red

      The Winds of Spring #2

      March Prayer

      The Rain

      Claws

      Anger #2

      The Light Has Gone Now

      Punctuations

      Stories

      Nature Revealed #2

      Plain Speaking

      Me

      Your Balletic Self

      Twelve Invitations to the Dance

      Your Dance

      Follow the Beat

      Utopias

      Swirling Past Me

      A Possible Endgame

      Watching You

      Self-Knowledge

      My Golden Dancer

      Your Destination?

      Accomplishments

      Someone

      Dreaming in Colour

      Third Entr’acte

      Story Time

      Unburdening

      What I See

      Thought Can Be a Rotten Thing

      A Silent Street

      Idealizing

      Thinking Again

      Sometimes the Night

      Nobody Now

      Transitioning

      Twelve Cloudfalls

      Your Power

      The Green Flash

      Gusts and Bursts

      That Line of Cloud

      The Morning Sun

      Sprawl Space

      Self-Doubt

      A Sky-High Wind

      Five a.m.

      Five Thirty a.m.

      Six a.m.

      Six Thirty a.m.

      Epilogue

      Entombment

      When the Snow Has Stopped #3

      When the Snow Falls Slow

      The Winds of Spring #3

      Anger #3

      Nature Revealed #3

      Understandings

      Introduction

      One of the most interesting scientific developments of the early twenty-first century has been the discovery by investigators of the connections between psychology and neuroscience, that there is a sound physiological basis, potentially present in everybody, for those states of mind associated with what poets and philosophers have called falling in love. Given that some people think that romantic infatuation is something foolish and unrealistic, it is a relief to find that several scientists have concluded that falling in love is associated with a state of consciousness that not only feels different from other states of consciousness but actually is different, physiologically speaking, from those states of consciousness associated with normality, either in oneself or in other people.

      At the end of this introduction, references will be found to four recent writings, which, after I had read them, had me crowing from the rooftops, as it were, because in almost all of my poetry so far, the miseries and grandeurs of romantic love have been communicated as if

      I did not worry about their being somewhat extreme; I have made no apologies for them, because, when they were written, the feelings that evoked them were extreme.

      The article by Jim Pfaus and his colleagues (Cacioppo et al., 2012) describes a review they undertook of twenty

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