Research Catalog

Title

How words see : some twentieth-century poems about works of art.

Publication

Menlo Park, CA : Occasional Works, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rosener, Ann, 1914-2012
• Occasional Works (Firm), publisher.
• Foolscap Press, binder.

Description

74, [3] pages; 28 cm

Summary

An anthology of poems about art works including poems by Charles Tomlinson, W.H. Auden, Thom Gunn, Gary Snyder, Lorine Niedecker, W.D. Snodgrass, Mina Loy, Charles Wright, Frank O'Hara, and many others.

Subjects

• Poetry, Modern > 20th century
• Art > Poetry
• Poetry > Collections
• Private press books > California > Menlo Park > 1998

Genre/Form

Private press books – California – Menlo Park – 1998.

Note

• "Designed and edited by Ann Rosener at Occasional Works, Menlo Park, California ... printed ... by Jonathan Clark ... Hand-sewed and hand-bound by Foolscap Press, Santa Cruz, California ... 80 numbered copies "--Colophon.

Binding (note)

• Bound in decorative beige paper boards.

Contents

Six thousand terra-cotta men and horses / Mark Doty -- On a landscape by Li Ch'eng / Charles Tomlinson -- The expulsion : Masaccio / C. Day Lewis -- Mantegna's St. Sebastian / Alan Dixon -- Arnolfini and his wife / Linda Gregerson -- Dürer's vision / John Haines -- Brueghel's snow / Anne Stevenson -- Musée des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden -- The old and the new masters / Randall Jarrell -- On Caravaggio's Conversion of St. Paul / Helen Pinkerton -- In Santa Maria del Popolo / Thom Gunn -- Before sleep / Kenneth Fields -- The Rokeby venus / Robert Conquest -- Vermeer / Howard Nemerov -- Portrait of the poet in Abraham von Werdt's dream / Charles Wright -- The death of the virgin (Rembrandt) / Peter Davison -- In the National Gallery, London / Eamon Grennan -- From the painting Back from market by Chardin / Eavan Boland -- Fuseli's the blind Milton / Mary Baine Campbell -- Storm in a teacup / Cate Parish -- Turner, Constable & Stubbs / Ronald Johnson -- Lear in Greece / Rachel Hadas -- Thoughts on looking at a Samuel Palmer etching at the Tate / Gary Snyder -- An illustration to Dante / Fleur Adcock -- On a painting by Rousseau / Weldon Kees -- Cézanne / Elizabeth Jennings -- Cézanne at Aix / Charles Tomlinson -- The secrets of E. Munch / Cynthia MacDonald -- One star in the Michelin / Christopher Reid -- Van Gogh / Lorine Niedecker -- At the Van Gogh museum / Alicia Ostriker -- Bonnard : a novel / Richard Howard -- Matisse: the red studio / W.D. Snodgrass -- Brancusi's golden bird / Mina Loy -- Paul Klee / John Haines -- Picasso: Dream oil 1932 / May Swenson -- Dora Maar / Barbara Guest -- Morandi II / Charles Wright -- Magritte shaving / Louis Simpson -- Sea-change / Philip Booth -- The photographs of Walker Evans / William Palmer -- A salvo for Hans Hofmann / Weldon Kees -- Joseph Cornell / Frank O'Hara -- Homage to David Smith / John Haines -- For Mark Rothko / Jorie Graham -- Louise Bourgeois exhibit / Diane Wakoski -- Why I am not a painter / Frank O'Hara.

Call Number

Rare Books 20-908

OCLC

40169100

Title

How words see : some twentieth-century poems about works of art.

Imprint

Menlo Park, CA : Occasional Works, 1998.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Binding

Bound in decorative beige paper boards. NN

Local Note

Copy in Rare Books 20-908 is no. 20 of 80 copies.

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Added Author

Rosener, Ann, 1914-2012, editor, book designer.

Occasional Works (Firm), publisher.

Foolscap Press, binder.

Research Call Number

Rare Books 20-908