Disturbing Muses

I have said I think that these poems are interpretations of what the poet sees on the canvas. I add that they are imaginary biographies as true as anything that actually happened: they are biographies written the other way around from the evidence of the art. Pablo Picassos relationship with women for instance as when he left her a twisted flattened shell curled like wet canvas on his padded chair mouth soundlessly screaming from the same side of her face that both eyes now stared from. Isnt that dont you think it is the way it (actually metaphorically whats the difference) happened. - from the introduction by Theodora Goss.