Poster Image
Item#: 2026SYR10
Purchase Details
11x17-inches, printed on heavy weight (100-pound) Hammermill cover paper. We package each print with a piece of chipboard in a clear plastic sleeve.
You also receive…
An information page with photos of the artist and poet, and hand-written comments from each.
A framing coupon, good for a 20 percent discount at Edgewood Gallery, a custom frame shop at 216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse.
Medium- and large-format posters are available by custom order. Contact us for details.
Poem Inspiration Location
Through The Heart Chambers
poster information
Description
Through the heart chambers
—atria and ventricles—
flows humanity
Within every one of us are four heart chambers that empty and fill throughout our lives. We think of the heart as the origin of love, compassion, and courage, something at our core that can be broken, mended, and in modern medicine, replaced, but something we cannot be without.
For some poets, the thrumming rhythm of a heartbeat may convert to meter and rhyme; for others, iambs or free verse. A poet hears the pounding, lets the poem emerge, and puts it down on paper—which is the bottle for the lightning.
As my first Syracuse Poster Project illustration, I was hoping that I could select a poem that conjured the feeling of creating a tall hill and seeing one of many stunning views in our area. Meanwhile I hoped it would also manifest an image of how Syracuse is the beating heart of Central New York, both in natural beauty and iconic architecture.
The poem I selected instantly brought to mind the image of the beating heart of a city; with roadways replacing arteries and people replacing cells. Flowing from the heart of the valley comes life, humanity, spilling over University Hill, stretching to Green Lakes, and emanating from the center of downtown.