Reviews for Michelangelo's Seizure

The average rating for Michelangelo's Seizure based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-09-25 00:00:00 Leonard Abeyta I can see why T.R. Hummer chose this book for the National Poetry Series--these ekphrastic poems, with their aggressive music and haunting images, just don't capture a painting, but capture the artists at work and history--both the personal history of the artists, and the greater history of us.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-07-14 00:00:00 Justin Jackson Truth be told, I feel that most ekphrastic poetry are exercise poems, or assignment poems. Something that is either about conforming to this piece of art, or indulging some lyric thought that must, by the poet's rules, be limited and tethered to that art. This said, I'm not sure why Gehrke has framed these poems as ekphrastic poems. They're good. They're indulgent. They're psychologically probing. They won't release their sentences for any rest, because there always needs to be more to say. And what's said feels so necessary. So, why, then, are these all attached to pieces of art, or artists? I would have liked to see some other principle connecting these poems together.