Before the Borderless

Winner of the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize Dean Rader reaches beyond artistic description to engage Twombly’s work in conversation . In 2018, just a few weeks after his father’s death, Dean Rader made a pilgrimage to the Gagosian Gallery in New York to see a retrospective of Cy Twombly’s work, In Beauty It is Finished: Drawings 1951-2008 . The exhibit led to a poem that would become the genesis of this book — from loss and fear to regret and beauty, Before the Borderless : The Cy Twombly Cycle reache