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Fall 2003
English Faculty Forum
Dr. Stephen Frech
reading from
his award-winning collection of poetry
IF NOT FOR THESE WRINKLES
OF DARKNESS
Nov.
19 • 7pm
• East
Room RTUC
“In
writing a sequence on the life and work of Rembrandt,
I envisioned a book that, while biographically accurate,
is more than a biography in verse. My sequence also
proposed to be more than a mere poetic gallery tour
of the paintings. Rembrandt’s life, known to
us almost exclusively through the paintings and tantalizingly
thin written documentation, is the stuff of real drama:
he survived several plague outbreaks and the deaths
of his two wives and four children. When he lost those
he loved, he loved no less intensely, but more deeply
and thoroughly. He enjoyed artistic triumphs and wealth,
suffered unceremonious rejection and insolvency. Through
all trials, Rembrandt remains in my sequence, as in
the paintings, deeply human: flawed, burdened sympathetic,
and frightfully, desperately honest about himself
and others.” —Stephen Frech
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