{"id":16193,"date":"2009-12-18T10:47:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T15:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=16193"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:25:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:25:05","slug":"roman-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/12\/18\/roman-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Artist in Rome <\/em>marries poems by the late John Tagliabue with paintings by Adam Van Doren<\/h3>\n

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A few years ago, as painter Adam Van Doren worked on a monograph of his work, he invited his friend, poet and Bates professor John Tagliabue, to write a single poem to accompany Van Doren\u2019s paintings of Italy, where Tagliabue was born in 1923.\u00a0 Tagliabue\u2019s response? Forty-eighty poems.<\/p>\n

The outpouring was a familiar manifestation of Tagliabue\u2019s extraordinary and, most of all, celebratory life force. This is what Tagliabue\u2019s Columbia professor, the Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning Mark Van Doren, who is Adam\u2019s grandfather, once wrote about his former student: \u201cHe walks in the first mist, the one \/ Before creation rested. He is affection \/ Not yet distilled, distinct; incapable of dying.\u201d<\/p>\n

For information on ordering An Artist in Rome<\/em>, send a note of inquiry to Bates Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tagliabue\u2019s poems did not arrive in time for that 2007 monograph, so Adam Van Doren, with pleasing results, has decided to feature the verse in his new book, An Artist in Rome<\/em>, recently published by Kelly-Winterton Press.<\/p>\n

Seen here are a few paintings and poems from the book, which also features essays by the artist and by James Hepburn, professor emeritus of English at Bates. \u201cWhat John was born to be,\u201d writes Hepburn of his former colleague, who died in 2006, \u201cwas a celebrator.\u201d<\/p>\n

Active Extensions of Baroque Influenced Buildings,
\nDesire and Light<\/h3>\n

Add
\nsome flags to it
\nand wind and ardor
\nand the creative Venture of your Appreciation,
\nInvent, Add to the Bulge, the Bulk, the Bernini
\nExuberance of<\/span>
\na Building, Italian Operatic, Energetic Architecture;
\nthe Protruding
\nCurved Balconies of Extensions. To what Extent
\nare you<\/span>
\nExaggerating or Celebrating Sturdiness and
\nStone and
\nDesire?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Nobility and strength awareness,
\nat rest<\/span><\/h3>\n

Time for a while to close your eyes, to rest in almost
\ndarkness, fertility<\/span>
\nresting, after a day or centuries of accomplishment, activity,
\nsoft mild<\/span>
\nwarm darkness, the whole warm vital body in repose. There
\narose in us<\/span>
\nsatisfaction thinking of those temples to the gods, goddesses,
\nemperors; those<\/span>
\nmighty marble well formed columns in the dark. Accomplished,
\nmonumental at<\/span>
\nthat. The complete satisfied body aware of the potential,
\nself-and-empire
\naware, at rest<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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A relatively small Roman church quiet in the dark<\/h3>\n

A relatively small Roman church quiet in the dark,
\nand a sarcastic Italian aunt of mine in the almost dark making
\nlace in her old age<\/span>
\nindoors, fine lace, secret place, bemused, in love with me since
\nmy childhood and<\/span>
\nthe secluded shadowy small church for centuries protecting
\nthoughts for me,<\/span>
\nincreasing the powers of prayers by me; tiny church like the nest
\nfor a sparrow in<\/span>
\nthe dark; do not, do not, spare me any of your mosaic and
\ninterior golden dreams,<\/span>
\ncrucifixion or Easter, amuse me with your limitations; sarcastic
\nquiet patient instinctive<\/span>
\nproceeding aunt; or are you a mystic ant in the centuries\u2019
\ndarkness? what are those<\/span>
\nangels saying and sounding off with their trophies and trumpets?
\nI thank you<\/span>
\nfor teaching me the untranslatable vows, for teaching me to bow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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