Planets on Tables
Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2018
224 pages
978-1-5017-2704-7 (ISBN)
Description
Poets have long been drawn to the images and techniques of still life. Artists and poets alike present intimate worlds where time is suspended in the play of form and color and where history disappears amid everyday things. The genre of still life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
13 halftones
13 halftones
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-2704-7 (9781501727047)
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01/2008
Cornell University Press
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Person
CostelloBonnie:
Bonnie Costello is Professor of English at Boston University. She is the author of Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry, Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery, and Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions. She is the editor of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore.
Bonnie Costello is Professor of English at Boston University. She is the author of Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry, Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery, and Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions. She is the editor of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore.
Content
- Cover
- PLANETS ON TABLES
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Preface: Apologies for Poetry
- Introduction: Crude Foyers
- 1. Wallace Stevens: Local Objects and Distant Wars
- 2. William Carlos Williams: Contending in Still Life
- 3· Elizabeth Bishop's Ethnographic Eye
- 4. Joseph Cornell: Soap Bubbles and Shooting Galleries
- 5. Richard Wilbur: Xenia
- Conclusion: Domestic Disturbance
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
