Tim Liardet: 3 books

Arcimboldo's famous seventeenth-century Mannerist portraits, in which the sitter's face is composed of vegetables and fruit, suggest how – in subordinating a mixture of elements into an unrelated whole – the imagination can translate and transform the medium of expression itself. Tim Liardet's...

In 2013, Tim Liardet met an American poet during a blizzard in Boston and the two began an immediate, life-transforming love affair. The World Before Snow was the result. In a book of passionate extremes, the self-portrait— itself reinvented—documents the ways in which a very particular species...

A book-length elegy that is both grief-fugue and exploration of family psychodrama, this poetry compilation explores the poet’s feelings of loss associated with his brother’s mysterious death. A narrative exploration of masculinity and brotherhood, it recalls the events of the past and invokes...