The painting Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going? by Paul Gauguin, intended as the painter's final artistic
testimony, is the inspiration and framework for this book. In one
way, "The Gauguin Answer Sheet" focuses on the intricate details of
the painting and offers its lush Tahitian landscape and
characters--a black dog, a pair of conspirators, a shy woman, a
pleading goddess, and a crouching mummy, among many others. In
another sense, Dennis Finnell deeply probes the underlying
implications--and personal associations--the painting offers.
The poem's own questions, suggested by those in the painting's
title, are concerned with origins, identities, and futures--of the
poet and others. Finnell reflects on the plight of the characters
portrayed in Gauguin's painting and imagines their thoughts and
feelings about life in the world outside. Along with his
ruminations on these imagined characters, Finnell visits his own
family history, reflecting on the lives of earlier generations, to
affirm the shared nature of each individual's origins and
identities. Through his poetry, time and space, painting and
history, and imagination and reality interconnect and offer an
unusually imaginative, surprising work of art.
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