Poem Brut #136 – The Quiet Woman
The Quiet Woman triptych is part of a series of poems that engage with the materials and themes in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native. Quiet Woman uses pages of the book as the basis for found visual poetry that engages with the physical as well as intellectual material of the book. In the first panel, pages have been torn into strips and woven back together. Words that have been lost in the process are obliterated by embroiderdoodle. In the second, book pages have been reworked into homemade paper, during which process fragments of surviving text emerged. Watercolour pencil doodles fill spaces between the fragments. The final panel presents the persevering text, merged digitally.
In the 136th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Laura Davis.