Sarah Mangold
POETRY
“Thought-Forms” are inspired by the watercolor illustrations found in the book Thought-Forms by Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater (1901). The book was found in Hilma af Klint’s library and considered influential to many of her peers and future abstract painters. Each illustration is a representation of the emotional aura around a person in different life circumstances (at a funeral, at a shipwreck, street accident, gambler, etc.).
Sarah Mangold (she/her) is the author of the chapbook The Atom (Wave Books, 2023) inspired by Hilma af Klint’s “The Atom Series,” and the full-length poetry collections Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners (Fordham University Press, 2021), selected by Cynthia Hogue for the POL Prize, Giraffes of Devotion (Kore Press, 2016), Electrical Theories of Femininity (Black Radish Books, 2015) and Household Mechanics (New Issues, 2002), selected by C.D. Wright for the New Issues Poetry Prize. Originally from Oklahoma, she now lives and works in Washington state.
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