by Brian Volck | May 19, 2026 | art, poetry, Publication
My new book of poetry, Chora, is scheduled for publication this fall as part of Cascade Press’s Poiema series. The collection includes, “The Florentine Pietà,” which describes an unfinished sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti now displayed in Florence’s Duomo Museum....
by Brian Volck | Jul 13, 2022 | amnesia, art, history
History is a messy business, an exercise in imposing order on contradictory information, a series of provisional efforts to select signal from noise, and is best understood, as Steven Shapin wrote about the sciences, “as if it was produced by people with bodies;...
