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"The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly" by Danielle DeTiberus

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January 7, 2020
 

The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly

 
Danielle DeTiberus
"The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly" by Danielle DeTiberus

About this Poem

 

"This is from a series of poems about the artist Artemisia Gentileschi's work and life. Her sexual assault and subsequent trial surely informed her work, and this poem owes a lot of its knowledge from two sources: the transcripts of that trial published in full in Mary D. Garrard's comprehensive tome about the artist, and from Judith W. Mann's essay 'Identity Signs: Meanings And Methods in Artemisia Gentileschi's Signatures,' which helped me move beyond my initial questions about what happens to art when women are excluded or about how I might explore my own trauma through persona. In Judith Beheading Holofernes, I see the necessity of women telling their own stories. The artist's signature is as sure and insistent as Judith's sword; she reclaims her agency through making and naming. Ultimately, then, this poem is an ode to survivors and to Gentileschi's exquisitely manicured middle finger to the idea that she could be erased or silenced."
—Danielle DeTiberus

 

Danielle DeTiberus was a finalist for Black Lawrence Press' 2018 Hudson Prize. She teaches creative writing at the Charleston School of the Arts.


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