Paintings Poems and Pathos

About the Book

This work is a collection of painting produced for two exhibitions of Loeb's paintings produced in 2004.  That year was a break out time for the author and a time of great productivity.  The poems and writings of  that time were the result of personnal upheaval introspection and a lot of drinking.  Relationships and feelings about padding around in America at that time are pretty well documented in the poetry and in the subject matter of the paintings. The author published poerty at a young age and has painted seriously since high school.  Wounded in life by self infliction, it was natural the author would choose creativity as his balm. 

About the Author

D. Julius Loeb has been a writer and oil painter for the majority of his otherwise dull life.  In 2004 Loeb was talked into exhibiting his then recent paintings together with another painter.  The body of work was well received and a second, solo show of Loeb's paintings followed in that same year.  Loeb has been a carpenter, businessman, teacher and has produced four previous novels.  Because Loeb's critics have often been confused by Loeb's raw personal writing, Loeb elected to really stir things up by publishing some of his poetry to augment his visual images.