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| Anonymous French photographer Artist's model in academic pose ca. 1880 albumen print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| attributed to Bruno Braquehais Nude model ca. 1840-60 photograph Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
from Making Frankenstein
He could not, no, he could not, no, although
He wheedled and cajoled, begged and promised,
But they would not, no, they would not
Take him to see The Curse of Frankenstein.
Then his uncle called and offered and they caved.
So next it was the matinee then home
And nothing said, until he sat through dinner like
Some little diplomat, and after that excused himself
And took his plate and headed up to bed.
Still nothing said. No, but midnight he woke up screaming.
Morning, his father cleared the plates then turned.
"That's that," he summarized, "too anatomical."
"What's anatomical?" the boy asked back.
This was summer 1957.
– Wyatt Prunty (2015)
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| Jean-Augustin Daiwalle Académie 1810 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Louis Fabritius Dubourg Model posed as falling demon ca. 1725 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Pietro Fontana after Giovanni Tognolli after Antonio Canova Hercules and Lichas before 1837 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Abraham Hesselink Titan preparing to throw a stone ca. 1910-11 bronze Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Mathijs Kessels Discus Thrower ca. 1900 bronze copy after marble original at Chatsworth cast by Compagnie des Bronzes, Brussels Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anonymous Italian printmaker Hercules and the Nemean Lion 1584 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
from Homage to Clotho: A Hospital Suite
Nowhere is all around us, pressureless,
A vacuum waiting for a rupture in
The tegument, a puncture in the skin,
To pass inside without a password and
Implode us into Erewhon. This room
Is dangerously unguarded: in one wall
An empty elevator clangs its doors,
Imperiously, for fodder; in the hall,
Bare stretchers gape for commerce; in the air
Outside, a trembling, empty brightness falls
In hunger on those whom it would devour
Like any sparrow hawk as darkness falls
And rises silently up the steel stairs
To the eleventh and last floor, where I
Reside on sufferance of authorities
Until my visas wither, and I die.
– L.E. Sissman (1999)
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| Jean Lepautre Nude in landscape ca. 1682-1706 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jean-Étienne Liotard The Three Graces (after antique marble in Galleria Borghese, Rome) 1737 pastel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Carlo Maratti Bacchante with cymbals ca. 1650-80 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Bernard Picart Académie 1723 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Tommaso Piroli after Vincenzo Camuccini after Antonio Canova Death of Priam 1794-95 hand-colored etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Lambert ten Kate Measured studies of a man's head before 1731 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Ark Anatomical
Set me to sound for you
The world unmade,
As he who rears the head
In light arrayed,
That its vision may quicken
Every wanting part,
Hangs deep in the dark body
A divining heart.
– Jay Macpherson (1957)
Poems from the archives of Poetry (Chicago)