The Helga Pictures
Linda Kittell
Pecan Grove Press, San Antonio, 2008
In her suite of poems based on the creation and experience of Andrew Wyeth’s Helga series of paintings, Washington State University English professor Linda Kittell takes on the voices of Wyeth, his model Helga Testorf, Wyeth’s wife Betsy, and the author herself. The verses speak to spiritual and sexual dimensions of making and viewing art, and to the relationships between artist, model, and the world. Kittell interprets more than the paintings, with poems that capture the creative process, such as “.…I waited/and made sketches in pencil, wanting her/to step through my doorway, her quiet manner/to light the room…”.
A Special Place Called “Moholo”
Kim Nicholas ’79, DVM ’85
BookSurge Publishing, 2009
A children’s book illustrated with the veterinarian Kim Nicholas’s photographs, which he collected while volunteering at the Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in South Africa. Proceeds from the self-published book go to support the wildlife center.