Angels of Pompeii, Photographs by Stephen Brigidi, Poetry by Robert Bly, [When his fascination with archaeology and history took Brigidi to Pompeii for the first time, he was captivated by the luminous frescoes of angels and the crumbling walls around them remaining long after the destruction by Vesuvius in 79AD and felt a bonding with his ancestry. Working with his photographs he began to feel the "poetry of the angels" could best be communicated by another artist who also perceived their message. Robert Bly, the noted poet, was that person, finishing poems he had started twenty years earlier and found related and creating new ones, so establishing a dialogue with the photographer.],
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Ballantine Books, New York, 1992,. see description. first edition, squarish format (248x255mm), 25 colour photographs, tinted endpapers, original cloth, title gilt on spine and blind-stamped on upper board, colour-illustrated dw, a small mark on lamination of the dw otherwise as new.
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- Crouch Rare Books (GB)
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- Angels of Pompeii, Photographs by Stephen Brigidi, Poetry by Robert Bly, [When his fascination with archaeology and history took Brigidi to Pompeii for the first time, he was captivated by the luminous frescoes of angels and the crumbling walls around them remaining long after the destruction by Vesuvius in 79AD and felt a bonding with his ancestry. Working with his photographs he began to feel the "poetry of the angels" could best be communicated by another artist who also perceived their message. Robert Bly, the noted poet, was that person, finishing poems he had started twenty years earlier and found related and creating new ones, so establishing a dialogue with the photographer.],
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- Brigidi & Bly,
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- Ballantine Books, New York, 1992,
- Palabras clave
- Classical Greek and Roman Literature and Civilisation
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- Classical Greek and Roman Literature, Classical Civilisation, Latin;
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