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    Ekphrasis Highlight | Annunciation: Inside a Temporary Passage Structure

    From the Greek ek (out) and phrazein (to speak), ekphrasis is a written description of or response to a work of visual art. Samek Museum Guide Joshua Garcia, an incoming Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts, shares an ekphrastic poem responding to the Samek’s permanent collection. This week, Garcia’s poem explores the relationship between two artworks, Giovanni del Biondo’s Annunciation and Robert Stackhouse’s Inside a Temporary Passage.

    Giovanni del Biondo
    Annunciation, 1369 – 1371
    Tempera on panel
    Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
    Samek Art Museum Collection
    1961.K.116

    Robert Stackhouse
    Inside a Temporary Passage, 1987
    Intaglio on paper
    University Purchase
    © Robert Stackhouse
    Samek Art Museum Collection
    2002.5

    Annunciation: Inside a Temporary Passage Structure

                after Giovanni del Biondo and Robert Stackhouse

    Give me beams, not of gold but of timber,
    shooting skyward, not coming down on this body
    like a dove’s wings, guillotines descending. 

    Give me ascension of raw goods, ink and paper,
    unfinished and narrowing into an expanse, into a shelter
    which reverberates not with consecration, but a howl.

    Let void not be so delicately embossed
    into a gilded bullseye but etched into me like scars,
    mapping wavering dilations of flesh.

    Let me creak like a man-made pavilion in a storm,
    bucking the sublime with an arched back, uncertain
    the structure will hold.

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