Flowering: Images & Ideas by Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian
This is a book to savor slowly, one page at a time, as an invitation to notice. To pause. To find the extraordinary in the everyday.
This is a book to savor slowly, one page at a time, as an invitation to notice. To pause. To find the extraordinary in the everyday.
This is a book to savor slowly, one page at a time, as an invitation to notice. To pause. To find the extraordinary in the everyday.
Flowering is a luminous collaboration between celebrated photographer Bruce Jackson and poet Diane Christian. Through the four seasons, Jackson’s vivid, full-color photographs reveal the quiet radiance of flowers and gardens, captured not as static still life, but as moments suspended in time. Christian’s accompanying words, by turns meditative, playful, reverent, respond with elegance and wit, offering poems, aphorisms, and simple gestures that echo the natural beauty unfolding on the page.
Shot in Buffalo and beyond—in Italy, France, New Mexico, Sicily, and Texas—these images and utterances form a richly textured dialogue between seeing and saying, between the ephemeral and the enduring.
This is a book to savor slowly, one page at a time, as an invitation to notice. To pause. To find the extraordinary in the everyday.
“flowers are like us
(as is pretty much all we greedily see)
they live & die
& signify”
—dc
Book Information:
· Paperback: 114 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
· ISBN: 978-1-60964-520-5
Bruce Jackson (SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture) and Diane Christian (SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor) have been on the University at Buffalo faculty for more than fifty years.
They have collaborated on books (some of which are: Death Row, Beacon, 1980; “In this Timeless Time”: Living and Dying on Death Row in America, UNC Press, 2012; and the forthcoming Leslie Fiedler; Kind of a Conversation, SUNY Press), documentary films, and public events in the arts and humanities. Since 2000, they have curated the Buffalo Film Seminars, both a UB class and a public outreach project.
Christian is author of two previous books of poetry: Wide-Ons (Synergistic Press, 1981) and Occasion Poems (BlazeVOX, 2019). Jackson’s photographs have been widely published and exhibited. He is author or editor of more than fifty books, four of them with BlazeVOX: Places; Things Heard. Things Seen, 2019; Robert Creeley on the Poets Work, 2021; Changing Tense; Thirty memento mori (2021); and Ephemera: 1995-2022: On people, politics, art, justice, torture and war, 2023.
