Judith Beheading Holofernes 1612-1613
(Another poem from my ekphrastic serices on Artemesia Gentileschi. I wrote this as a strike out poem, but that doesn’t work on the LexPoMo website, so it’s an erasure poem instead.)
Gentileschi presents a portrait of women’s power, asserting the capacity to make her own decisions…
Gentileschi makes the servant woman participate in the killing. It adds a savage realism – it would take two women to kill this brute.
“Judith Beheading Holofernes”
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Brilliant erasure! You slice away the excess of the text to reveal the truth of the event—this “savage realism,” this physical effort to overpower a brute.
Thank you, Michele!
I love this series! Bravo!
Thank you so much, Sylvia!
This series is very interesting. Like a poetic biography of someone. How cool!
Thank you so much. This is a 10 poem collection that I composed in a class on ekphrastic poetry with Eric Reece at UKy. I loved the research! Gentileschi was an extraordinary woman who lived a remarkable life. Her works are expressive as well as meticulous. An extraordinary artist!
The subject matter is completely intriguing and that title is killer.
Thank you, Linda. Is your comment on the title a pun? 😉