A famous photographer goes shopping, two writers trade coded love letters, and Abraham Lincoln reflects on present-day decline. Eve Wood tells their stories in poems, letters and her own drawings.
Readical Key Points
- Poems and fiction in letters by Eve Wood, arranged in four parts
- Parts: Diane Arbus Goes Shopping; SIX, in the voices of Henry VIII's six wives; The Two V's, on Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West; and A Cadence for Redemption: Conversations with Abraham Lincoln
- Illustrated with drawings and paintings from the author's thirty-year archive
- Paperback, 256 pages, DoppelHouse Press, 2026
The title sequence imagines a hidden life for Diane Arbus, the photographer. The Two V's builds a correspondence out of the love between Woolf and Sackville-West, the Lincoln section lets a president reflect on present-day decline, and SIX gives each of Henry VIII's wives her own say. Wood's drawings and paintings, darkly funny in the publisher's description, run through the book.
It suits readers of persona poetry and of writing about artists and historical figures, and readers who want poems and pictures from the same hand. Every figure here comes from history. Every voice comes from Wood.
About the Author
Eve Wood is an artist, art critic and poet whose work has appeared in The New Republic, Best American Poetry and Poetry. She studied at the California Institute of the Arts (BFA, MFA) and UC Irvine (MFA in creative writing), has held a Jacob Javits Fellowship, and has exhibited her drawings and paintings in the United States and abroad.
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