Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems - Tapa blanda

"Garebian employs a gritty yet lyrical tone" This notably elegiac collection of poems demonstrates the authoras strong connection to the past and his equally strong engagement with the present."
-"Canadian Book Review Annual" on "Reservoir of Ancestors"

"Along with hard-edged clarity and succinct imagery, the language in this collection is often surreal and lustrous as befitting its subject matter about a painteras mistress who finds herself defined and given her "raison daetre" by her promiscuous artist-lover."
-"Event" on "Frida: Paint Me As A Volcano"

"Garebian employs a gritty yet lyrical tone...This notably elegiac collection of poems demonstrates the author's strong connection to the past and his equally strong engagement with the present."--"Canadian Book Review Annual" on "Reservoir of Ancestors" "Along with hard-edged clarity and succinct imagery, the language in this collection is often surreal and lustrous as befitting its subject matter about a painter's mistress who finds herself defined and given her "raison d'etre" by her promiscuous artist-lover."--"Event" on "Frida: Paint Me As A Volcano"

In Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems, Keith Garebian, himself an insatiable cineaste, has masterfully spliced together an engaging book-length portrait of a filmmaker, visual artist, poet, sexual rebel, and gardener who double-dared the conventions of art, desire, and filmmaking. Derek Jarman's final film, Blue, is a work without visuals except International Klein Blue, and it provides Garebian with an inspired backdrop against which he explores, in the book's poignant closing section, the filmmaker's descent into illness-induced blindness, charting his physical and emotional decline while also building towards a kind of defiant holy death equal to the passions of Jarman's most sacred martyrs: Caravaggio, St. Sebastian, and Jesus Christ. In this life-affirming, cinematic, at turns randy and elegiac verse-biography, Keith Garebian celebrates one of the world's truly unforgettable and rebellious spirits.