Red Stones | about the book
Red Stones, poems by Jonas Zdanys, paintings by Steven Schroeder. Lamar University Literary Press, 2016. isbn 9781942956211. Red Stones is a collection of poems by internationally-known poet Jonas Zdanys. In this book you will find Zdanys’ best writing yet, 12-line lyric poems that speak clearly through vivid multi-sensual imagery and the textured language of a master poet. Working with the poet in producing this book is artist Steven Schroeder, who presents brilliant as well as subtle color in paintings that sometimes fall between the abstract and the literal and offer both beauty and something to ponder. Added to the collaborative art of poet and painter is the book itself, designed by Regina Schroeder, so this small volume is an aesthetic masterpiece, one you will enjoy holding, reading, rereading, examining the paintings in various light, and appreciating the interplay of three art forms: poetry, painting, and book design. | order from an independent bookstore
Red Stones’s collaborative effort sees Jonas Zdanys’s precision of language in these twelve-line lyric poems contrasting with the textural abstractions of Steven Schroeder’s paintings. Zdanys, a celebrated bilingual poet who writes in as well as translates from the Lithuanian, navigates from the physical to the philosophical in these short poems that leave the reader always hungry for the next one to begin. -World Literature Today, Nota Benes, September 2016
notes on the process, by Jonas Zdanys
notes on the process, by Steven Schroeder
notes on the process, by Regina Schroeder
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