Structure and Imagery

Käthe Kollwitz,  Tod and Frau (Death Seizing a Woman) , 1910, 17 1/2 x 17 in. Etching on paper. Pomona College Collection. Gift of the Culley Collection Violent Storm   by Mark Strand Those who have chosen to pass the night Entertaining friends And intimate ideas in the bright, Commodious rooms of dreams Will not feel the slightest tremor Or be wakened by what seems Only a quirk in the dry run Of conventional weather. For them, The long night sweeping over these trees And houses will have been no more than one In a series whose end Only the nervous or morbid consider. But for us, the wide-awake, who tend To believe the worst is always waiting Around the next corner or hiding in the dry, Unsteady branch of a sick tree, debating Whether or not to fell the passerby, It has a sinister air. How we wish we were sunning ourselves In a world of familiar views And fixed conditions, confined By what we know, and able to refuse Entry to the unaccounted for. For now, Deep...

Käthe Kollwitz, Memorial Sheet of Karl Liebknecht , 1919-1920,  woodcut heightened with white and black ink, 14 5/8 × 20 7/16 in Primitive Painters I just wish my life could be as strange as a conspiracy I hold out but there's no way of being what I want to be Dragons blow fire angels fly spirits wither in the air I'm just me I can't deny I'm neither here, there nor anywhere Oh you should see my trail of disgrace, it's enough to scare the whole human race Oh you should see my trail of disgrace, it's enough to scare the whole human race I don't care about this life, they say there'll be another one defeatist attitude I know will you be sorry when I've gone Primitive painters are ships floating on an empty sea gathering in galleries were stallions of imagery Oh you should see my trail of disgrace, it's enough to scare the whole human race Oh you should see my trail of disgrace, it's enough to scare the whole human race -Fel...