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An Ode to Peonies
Topics: Italy | New and Upcoming Works | Painting Flowers | Peonies | Still Life Paintings | Tuscany | video
Rainsong Peonies
In this ode to peonies, Caroline recites one of her favourite poems as she harvests flowers from her Tuscan garden and creates her latest peony still life painting.
Poem
"Peonies"
by Mary Oliver *
©1992 Mary Oliver
Music
"Train"
by Sergey Cheremisinov **
©Sergey Cheremisinov CC BY 4.0
Filmmaker
John Charles Jopson
Dirty Poet Films, LLC
Painting and poem reading by
Caroline Zimmermann
"Rainsong Peonies" 30x40 Oil on Canvas
* Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for her poems. In 2007 The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's best-selling poet."
* *Sergey Cheremisinov is a prolific Russian composer known for his evocative piano-based instrumental compositions.
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