Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets
Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets
What are poets looking at, looking for, when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American and British poets about painting. The poets bring to their task a fresh eye and a freshened language, vivid with nuance and color and force. (University of California Press)
Contributors: William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, E.E. Cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Kenneth Rexroth, Howard Nemerov, Randall Jarrell, Frank O'Hara, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Guy Davenport, Johnn Ashberry, James Schuyler, Charles Tomlinson, Ted Hughes, James Merrill, Richard Howard, Mark Strand, John Hollander