Tuscan Trees

by Janet Lembke, Mark Steinmetz (Photographer)

Photography. Poetry. This is the first book for Mark Steinmetz, a photographer with a very unique, somber vision. Steinmetz has been teaches in the summer photography program of the Art Department of the University of Georgia, at Cortona, in Tuscany. TUSCAN TREES offers a portfolio of some of his most luminous findings. Each black-and-white tree photograph is accompanied by the writing of Janet Lembke, whose "writing tacks between three the stuff of her late-twentieth-century life; the tangle of creature and plant in every dimension of tide and river flow; and the haunting, connecting wires of mythos that still knot us to the ancient beginnings"-Annie Proulx.

Genres: Poetry, Photography

100 pages, Paperback

First published February 18, 2002

About the author

Janet Lembke (2 March 1933 - 3 September 2013), née Janet Nutt, was an American author, essayist, naturalist, translator and scholar. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio during the Great Depression, graduated in 1953 from Middlebury College, Vermont, with a degree in Classics, and her knowledge of the classical Greek and Latin worldview, from Homer to Virgil, informed her life and work. A Certified Virginia Master Gardener, she lived in Virginia and North Carolina, drawing inspiration from both locales. She was recognized for her creative view of natural cycles, agriculture and of animals, both domestic and wild, with whom we share the natural environment. Referred to as an "acclaimed Southern naturalist," she was equally (as The Chicago Tribune described her) a "classicist, a noted Oxford University Press translator of the works of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus". She received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to translate Virgil's Georgics, having already translated Euripides’ Electra and Hecuba, and Aeschylus’s Persians and Suppliants.

(from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Aleta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely