Facture

Concerned heavily with the material process of creation, this collection both lingers in and constantly surpasses ekphrasis. Knapp places herself in conversation with Paul Cézanne and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, identifying impressionism and perspective to be of primary importance in her own writing. These themes, combined with the poet’s meticulous investigation of light, line, color, and figure, lend a compelling integrity to the images on the page.