It has taken a lot longer to get this out to you than I had previously anticipated, but today I present you with the proposed title page image for To Some I Have Talked with by the Fire. The first initial I drafted up back in November was centered around a flock of birds(presumably they will be ravens, but at the moment they are a nice generic animal of the avian variety.) That initial turned out so well that it was decided to carry that theme over into the title page. This title page breaks the continuity of figure centered imagery which has been used for all the other poems to date. However, between the up sweeping flames, the rising bird, and the smoke swirls, I feel that the visual plane is being used roughly in the same manner of that in previous images. Therefore, I do not believe that the lack of a human figure in this image will be a problem.Elements:
fire and raven - And of the embattled flaming multitude/ who rise, wing above wing, flame above flame
bats - Of passionate men, like bats in the dead trees
knife/dagger/etc - and with the clashing of their sword-blades make/ a rapturous music, will the morning break
As you can see in the image above I am playing with the idea of writing the poem's title in the smoke, however, I'm not certain how this will work. Unless I can find a way to work the titles into all the title page images themselves, then I will not be doing that.
My apologies that this is so short, but there will be more to come next Monday or later in the weekend.
