Vincent Van Gogh
by
Ralph Hammond
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This unique book intertwines poetry and biographies—the main biography, of course, being that of Vincent Van Gogh. But as we follow Van Gogh from his childhood, to his time as a preacher to coal miners. To his ecstatic periods of creation and final madness, we discern another parallel life: that of the author. And this life, too, looms largely as we follow Ralph Hammond first as a young World War II correspondent in the European theater pondering the rubble of a blasted house where Van Gogh’s life and painting throughout contemporary Europe. The union of the two lives, the reader will surely discover, offers quite a poignant journey.
ISBN 0-942979-46-X, paper, $10.00
ISBN 0-942979-45-1, cloth, $20.00