Visibility: Ten Miles, by Sharon Chmielarz
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Visibility: Ten Miles is a collaboration of poetry and photography between Sharon Chmielarz, poet, and Ken Smith, photographer. Both are well acquainted with the prairie; hence these photos and poems include not only grasslands but also the unusual only insiders have seen. These images come from two angles, what the eye sees and what the heart responds to. The title suggests the ability on the prairie to see in distances of miles, not of city blocks or minutes. Here it can suggest something more lies ahead which is unseen. And that is what this book brings to the reader–what might be unseen or unremembered or not yet imagined to the eye.
Visibility: Ten Miles, by Sharon Chmielarz- Amazon Sales Rank: #2638878 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.80" h x .30" w x 6.80" l, .52 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 96 pages
About the Author Sharon Chmielarz has had seven books of poetry published including Love from the Yellowstone Trail and Calling, a finalist for the Indie Book Awards, 2011. She's had poems published in magazines like Notre Dame Review, The Iowa Review, Salmagundi, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Hudson Review. Her latest award is Water~Stone Review's 2012 Jane Kenyon Prize.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The best pictures I took on that trip were simple photographs ... By Monique Lewis Review by Benjamin Schmitt, At The Inkwell“And I think of certain women/ as worn down mountains/ women who set their/ hearts down to sing.”When I was eleven my family took a trip to South Dakota. We saw the usual sights; Mt. Rushmore, The Crazy Horse Memorial, but even as a kid it was the beauty of the prairie itself that drew me. The best pictures I took on that trip were simple photographs of the wide grasslands. Visibility: Ten Miles, A Prairie Memoir in Photography and Poetry with written work by Sharon Chmielarz and visual artistry by Ken Smith is a collaboration that celebrates this unique American beauty, in all its harsh life and healing tragedy.A common mistake in a collaboration like this is the photograph becoming a repetition of the poem or vice versa. It can be quite boring if the poem is merely a description of the picture the viewer is already seeing on the opposing page. While there are a couple instances in Visibility: Ten Miles when the artists come dangerously close to this, what is remarkable about the book is how both poem and photograph complete each other by focusing on different themes.For instance, in the poem “During the Blizzard” we are given two different settings in the two stanzas of the poem. In the first stanza we are introduced to the poet’s grandmother in a covered wagon and in the second the poet writes about an evening in our own time. On the opposing page is a picture of a few cars and while all of these parts seem disparate at first, the reader soon realizes that it is the wind binding all of them together. Thus the poem is transformed from a remembrance of a grandparent into a meditation on the perennial perils of the prairie winds.The work of these stylistically different artists fits together perfectly. In the piece “Navigation by Metaphor”, the photograph keeps the viewer grounded in a concrete image leaving the poet free to explore the microcosms and macrocosms of life on the Great Plains. “Sparse Music” begins with the lines “for the marriage/ of moon to clouds,/ wind came with a broken arm” providing a narrative for the captivating cloud structures of the image. Likewise, by selecting a photograph of a calf to accompany a poem about an elderly cow in “Cow, a Pastoral”, these artists have allowed us to enter into the gaze of years, and to experience all the loss, longing, and wisdom between the generations.The colors of the poems and the photographs often provide exciting contrasts to one other. “Milton on the Plains: the Coal Furnace” is a dark poem with the only light provided by the hellish coals of an old contraption. The picture opposite is filled with the light of a daytime image and when taken together we are reminded of the everyday terrors lurking just beyond our vision. All of the photographs are in black and white, which makes these lines of “Moon” that much more powerful: “Moonlight dyes the water red/ veils wheat fields in rose.” Incredibly, the poem itself manages to add the reddest of reds to the accompanying image. In “A House” the darkness of the photo is juxtaposed with the detailed illuminations of the poem, creating a satisfying sense of mystery.Great artistic collaborations are rare, especially when one of the artists is a writer. We are isolated creatures, often unwilling to give up complete control of a project. So when a book like Visibility: Ten Miles is released, it is no small accomplishment. In “Watching Two Crows Circle” the poet writes about hunger and the photographer answers with a picture of corn, of sustenance. I can think of no better way to describe the meeting of these two artists, they have provided the right amount of desire and the right amount of satisfaction in this collection. The reader is constantly fulfilled yet never tires of the content.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A fine duet of image and word! By Paula C Lowe Find a fat chair to curl up with Visibility: Ten Miles. It is just right for an afternoon of pause. Ken Smith and Sharon Chmielarz know the world of prairie. The lean poems coupled with the stark black and white photographs produce a duet of image and word that is plaintive, pure and true. "The Sun is Square: Farmer's Proverbs" reads next to a waving sunset that winks below a surf of clouds. "Story of a Farm Girl" pops out across from "Elevator in Ellendale." The turning of each page, wide formatted to extend the feeling of open space, yields a line of barbed wire or the March black top on snow. In "Blue Harvest," Chmielarz gives us "I run. I run through all/ the space in the world." and "I'm companion on the road to telephone poles...." while to the left Smith catches the fly by clouds that brush the sky in his photograph, "Cloud Bumps Column across the Couteau." Enjoy this book and give it to your friends and family. The poems and the photos invite all readers to pause and find something of themselves.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Breathtaking Memoir in Photography and Poetry By Carol Smallwood The stark beauty of the American prairie landscape is captured by photographer Ken Smith, echoed by poet, Sharon Chmielarz who were raised or are residents of North and South Dakota. Most of the photos were taken in North Dakota but there are also scenes from South Dakota, Minnesota, and Nebraska. The poems include one nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2014, and one featured in American Life in Poetry.
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