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The Josephine Hopper Poems

At the Amagansett Library
By
Star Staff

In her latest collection of poems, “Hurt, the Shadow,” Carole Stone gives voice to a historical figure almost never heard from, Josephine Hopper, the wife of the painter Edward Hopper. Ms. Hopper studied at the New York School of Art and was a painter in her own right, yet in marrying a man who would go on to become a giant on the American scene, she became known as his model. She was also a strong influence on his work.

Ms. Stone, a professor emerita of English at Montclair State University, lives part time in Springs. She’ll read selections from “Hurt, the Shadow,” published last year by Dos Madres Press, at the Amagansett Library on Sunday at 2 p.m., incorporating a slide show of paintings to illustrate how they led to particular poems.

This marks the beginning of a new series of Sunday afternoon readings, the next of which, on Sept. 21, will bring Scott Chaskey of Quail Hill Farm and his most recent book, “Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics, and Promise of Seeds.”

 

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