![]() ![]() In doing so, Brooks insists that Annie is a being whose adventures-localized though they may be-are worthy of close inspection, that the lessons therein telegraph truths about the entire universe. In both deference to and defiance of Latin conventions, Brooks casts her protagonist as a classical hero. Annie Allen’s centerpiece, “The Anniad,” consists of 43 stanzas of meandering text its title is a riff on Virgil’s The Aeneid. The collection traces the life of Annie, an “ordinary,” which is to say largely forgotten, black girl as she experiences the epic journey from childhood to the landmine-studded province of womanhood. Alexander’s preface, “Of the black & boisterous hair,” draws its title from Pulitzer Prize–winner Gwendolyn Brooks’s 1949 book of poetry, Annie Allen. Simpson’s images operate in concert with the texts that frequently share their plane-her art is a study in meticulous harmony.įrom its first pages, Lorna Simpson Collages sets forth the artist’s multidisciplinary lens. Simpson’s work is distinctive, the patterns of her photography and collages often immediately recognizable. She’s familiarized herself with the smoky allure of charcoal. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s used wigs as props, her own body as a subject. That Simpson would have a facility with integrating found images isn’t surprising while the artist gravitates toward photo-based mediums, she’s also painted, drawn, directed, and sculpted. ![]()
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