Light from the Left: Poems on Paintings by Rembrandt

In Light from the Left, poet and neuroscientist Judith Lauter discovers a Rembrandt both familiar and far different from the one we are accustomed to. He is recognizably the massively talented artist of religious and secular masterpieces that have made him renowned throughout the world, a figure virtually synonymous with "great painter" But these poems also locate a new Rembrandt, a compassionate, subtle, and slyly subversive political thinker and observer of the human condition, who views the world from a unique perspective. After reading this book, you may never look at a Rembrandt painting in quite the same way again.