In-text plate (folio 24) from 21 Etchings and Poems
Theodore RoethkeWW-1960-M008914
1960·Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 14 etchings (six with aquatint, four with engraving, one with drypoint), two aquatints, two engravings, two drypoints, and one photogravure·plate: 14 × 12 1/16" (35.5 × 30.7 cm); page: 19 11/16 × 16 7/8" (50 × 42.8 cm)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1960
- Dimensions
- plate: 14 × 12 1/16" (35.5 × 30.7 cm); page: 19 11/16 × 16 7/8" (50 × 42.8 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Theodore Roethke
Artist
Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke was an American poet whose verse moved from formal, tightly controlled lyrics to expansive, rhythmically urgent explorations of consciousness and the natural world. His language oscillates between the domestic and the mythic, drawing on his childhood experiences in his father's greenhouse in Michigan to create a personal cosmology grounded in plant growth and transformation. Working primarily in the postwar period, Roethke developed a confessional intensity that influenced a generation of American poets. His later sequences employ incantatory repetition and stream-of-consciousness pacing to probe states of psychological dissolution and rebirth.
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- Theodore Roethke
- Year
- 1960
- Dimensions
- plate: 14 × 12 1/16" (35.5 × 30.7 cm); page: 19 11/16 × 16 7/8" (50 × 42.8 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1960-M008914
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
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- Status
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