Poems Inspired by the Arts

This is a book of poems that is based on the premise that products of art such as musical composition painting sculpture and architecture can serve as stimuli for the development of original poems. These products of art evoke a range of emotions from love anger and hate to anxiety fear and melancholy; and they can be expressed in original poems. Forty-four works of art were identified; for example Rachmaninoffs Second Piano Concerto Picassos Guernica Michelangelos David and the Great Pyramid of Giza. For each of the works of art an original poem emphasizing feelings and emotions was developed.