Colour for Solitude

Poems

By: Sujata Bhatt

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Revolving around the public and private lives of the great modern painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, this collection explores the artist's relationship with her craft and her friendship with poet Rainer Maria Rilke and his wife, sculptor Clara Westhoff. Inspired by the artist's numerous self-portraits, Bhatt transports the image of Modersohn-Becker to present-day Germany. This book-length sequence of poems presents a rich and fully conceived history of the inner and outer worlds of one of the century's great modern painters.

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Author's Note	p. 9
Self-Portrait as Aubade, 1897	p. 17
Self-Portrait done with Red Chalk, 1897	p. 19
Self-Portrait as My Sister, 1897	p. 20
Self-Portrait with Coppery Red Hair, 1897/98	p. 21
Self-Portrait in Front of Window Offering a View of Parisian Houses, 1900	p. 22
Two Girls, Two Sisters, PB to CW, 1900	p. 23
A White Horse Grazing in Moonlight, 1901	p. 24
Your Weyerberg Gaze, CW to RMR, 1901	p. 25
No Road Leads to This, CW to RMR, 1901	p. 27
The Washing on the Line, 1901	p. 29
Two Girls in a Landscape, 1901	p. 30
Icicles Hang from the Reeds of Our Roof, CW to PB, February 1902	p. 32
Self-Portrait with Scratches, 1903	p. 33
Self-Portrait with Blossoming Trees, 1903	p. 36
Two Girls: The Blind Sister, 1903	p. 37
Self-Portrait in Front of a Landscape with Trees, 1903	p. 38
Two Girls in Profile in a Landscape, charcoal, 1903/04	p. 40
In Her Green Dress, She is, 1905	p. 41
Self-Portrait with Your Jaw Set, 1905	p. 43
You are the Rose, CW to RMR, 1905	p. 44
A Red Rose in November, PB to CW, 1905	p. 46
Don't Look at Me like That, CW to PB, 1905	p. 49
Self-Portrait with an Oversized Hat and a Red Rose in the Right Hand, 1905	p. 50
Self-Portrait with a Necklace of White Beads, 1906	p. 51
Self-Portrait with a Wreath of Red Flowers in Your Hair, 1906	p. 53
A Colour for Solitude, PB to RMR, 1906	p. 55
Self-Portrait on My Fifth Wedding Anniversary, 25-5-06	p. 59
Self-Portrait as a Nude Torso with an Amber Necklace, 1906	p. 62
Self-Portrait as Anonymous, 1906	p. 64
You Spoke of Italy, PB to RMR, 1906	p. 65
Is there More Truth in a Photograph?, PB to her sister HB, 1906	p. 67
Self-Portrait as a Life-Sized Nude, 1906	p. 68
Self-Portrait as a Standing Nude with a Hat, 1906	p. 69
Self-Portrait Wearing a Blue and White Striped Dress, 1906	p. 71
Self-Portrait with Yellowish Green, 1906	p. 72
Two Girls: One Sitting in a White Shirt. The Other; a Standing Nude, 1906	p. 73
Two Girls: Nude, One Standing, the Other Kneeling in Front of Red Poppies, 1906	p. 74
Two Girls with their Arms Across their Shoulders, 1906	p. 75
Self-Portrait on a Hot Day in Paris, 1906	p. 76
Self-Portrait as a Mask, 1906	p. 78
Self-Portrait with a Hat and Veil, 1906	p. 79
Self-Portrait, Frontal, with a Flower in the Right Hand, 1906/07	p. 80
A White Horse Grazing in Moonlight, a retrospective view of 1901, PB to OM	p. 82
Otto with a Pipe, PB to OM, 1906/07	p. 83
Self-Portrait with a Lemon, 1906/07	p. 84
Self-Portrait with a Sprig of Camellia Leaves, 1906/07	p. 87
And What Will Death Do?, 1906/07	p. 88
Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in the Left Hand, 1907	p. 89
Who has just Died? CW to PB, 1908	p. 91
Through the Blackness, CW to PB, 1915	p. 93
21 November 1916, CW to PB	p. 95
The Room Itself is Dying, CW to RMR, circa 1921	p. 99
Ruth's Wish, CW to RMR, 1936	p. 101
16 April 1945, CW to PB	p. 102
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