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The
Entertainers
Poems
and linocuts
by John Gibbens
Published
7th June 2004
A5, 28pp, stapled, card cover
ISBN
978-0-9539153-7-8
£6.00
A celebration
of the circus ring and the stage through 10 theatrical characters
bareback rider and conjuror, juggler and high-wire walker, Harlequin and
Pierrot, the ringmaster, the ventriloquist and the tragedian along
with their presiding deity, Hermes. Each is illustrated with an inkjet
print taken from a linocut three in black and white and eight in
colour.
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Juggler
This seems
autonomous symmetry
and not my doing.
I stand and let it spring from me
as the first cause,
rise, return and fly, while I,
transported,
follow the respiration of the spheres.
Its
Brahma who swings the clubs, Vishnu
keeping them spinning
and painting the space with their speed,
till by Shivas
hand, a fine fling done, theyre drawn
down and ceased,
like the life where you look for such order.
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