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Frontispiece: A Poetry Collection
Juxtaposing visual art and the written word, the Frontispiece Poetry Collection explores the space between outward appearances, first impressions, the stories we tell each other, and the ones we only tell ourselves.
Frontispiece dances between the inquisitive and knowing, deeply rooting and taking to the sky. It's about sneaking out and folding in; a mother's window and the child who comes back through it; shutting ourselves inside like bivalves or outrunning hurricanes; walking away from a frantic world and into the woods; and losing ourselves under the cover of two minutes' darkness...
Frontispiece is a multi-sensory, modern take on title page-facing printed engravings in classic hardbound books, exploring impressionism and expressionism, in search of self.
Frontispiece dances between the inquisitive and knowing, deeply rooting and taking to the sky. It's about sneaking out and folding in; a mother's window and the child who comes back through it; shutting ourselves inside like bivalves or outrunning hurricanes; walking away from a frantic world and into the woods; and losing ourselves under the cover of two minutes' darkness...
Frontispiece is a multi-sensory, modern take on title page-facing printed engravings in classic hardbound books, exploring impressionism and expressionism, in search of self.
99 pages, Paperback
Published December 13, 2022
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Cristel Orrand
9 books29 followersCristel Orrand is an author of fiction, mini-biographies, poetry and is currently working on her first foray into historical fiction, set in NC during the Revolutionary War and brought to life through a strange series of events and lively cast of characters, including the Rev. David Caldwell and Daniel Boone.
Cristel grew up in a military family, moving back and forth across the US, and living in Turkey and Jordan for several years. The Amalgamist is in part, an acknowledgement of the gift of a childhood spent in the Middle East, and the product of a perpetual dissident, who finally remembered what she always wanted to be.
She’s spent the last ten years working in federal and commercial IT consulting, where her degrees in French and Political Science have been of little use, but huge importance to her anyway. She’s a mom, a project manager, a bibliophile, a writer, a history buff, a cook, a critic, a gardener, a storyteller, a cancer survivor, a caretaker, a scavenger and a pugilist, of a sort.
She lives in Raleigh, NC, with her artist husband, twins and dogs, doing everything she can dream up and cram into a day.
Cristel grew up in a military family, moving back and forth across the US, and living in Turkey and Jordan for several years. The Amalgamist is in part, an acknowledgement of the gift of a childhood spent in the Middle East, and the product of a perpetual dissident, who finally remembered what she always wanted to be.
She’s spent the last ten years working in federal and commercial IT consulting, where her degrees in French and Political Science have been of little use, but huge importance to her anyway. She’s a mom, a project manager, a bibliophile, a writer, a history buff, a cook, a critic, a gardener, a storyteller, a cancer survivor, a caretaker, a scavenger and a pugilist, of a sort.
She lives in Raleigh, NC, with her artist husband, twins and dogs, doing everything she can dream up and cram into a day.
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