"Woman in the Painting"
from Andrea Hollander Budy's
Woman in the Painting

Andrea Hollander Budy:

Andrea Hollander Budy is the author of two previous full-length poetry collections, including House Without a Dreamer, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and three award-winning chapbooks. Other honors include the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize for memoir, the Runes Poetry Award, and fellowships from the Arkansas Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as more than a dozen other national awards. She and her husband, Todd, live in the Ozark Mountains near the town of Mountain View, Arkansas. They have one grown son, Brooke. Since 1991, she has worked as the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, where she was awarded the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching. (Photo by Jason Marzewski)

About Woman in the Painting:

“In ‘Still Life with Jonquils’ Budy says ‘The painter knows… we bring our heat to the canvas.' Her readers enter poem after poem in this poignant and mature collection bearing the heat of their own lives. The Depression, World War II, the poet’s family history of loss are ranged against remarkable poems about Auden, Larkin, Dickinson and allusions to Dylan Thomas and Rilke, as well painters Munch and Vermeer. Budy’s impeccable conversational diction does just what a poem should do; it raises the hairs on the nape of your neck.”
— Maxine Kumin

“Andrea Hollander Budy knows what to hold back as she lets us in. And so we willingly bring ourselves into her subtly registered emotional world. There’s a lovely blend of qualities at work here – an unsparing eye, and a heart that humanizes what that eye sees.”
— Stephen Dunn

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