Émaux et camées

A lyric collection of polished poems that foregrounds visual precision and sensual detail, moving between ekphrastic descriptions, portraits, and brief dramatic tableaux. Many pieces examine objects and bodies—marble statuary, jewels, hands—and rework classical and exotic motifs into condensed, imagistic scenes. Language emphasizes texture, color, and formal metrical music while exploring desire, artifice, and metamorphosis; mythic and orientalist touches provide settings for meditation on beauty, mortality, and aesthetic creation. The volume alternates short narrative vignettes with shorter lyrical meditations, offering tightly wrought verse where ornament and technique are themselves themes.