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Art and Artists Poems

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ISBN-10: 0307959384

ISBN-13: 9780307959386

Edition: 2012

Authors: Emily Fragos

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In our beautiful Pocket Poet format: a sumptuous collection of poems about visual art and artists--the work of centuries of poets who have used their own art form to illuminate art created by others.A wide variety of visual art forms have inspired great poetry: from painting, sculpture, and photography, to tapestry, folk art, and calligraphy. Included here are poems that celebrate the Mona Lisa, Monet's Water Lilies, and Grant Wood's American Gothic. Here are such well-known poems as Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts," Homer's immortal account of the forging of the shield of Achilles, and García Lorca's breathtaking ode to the surreal paintings of Salvador…    
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Book details

List price: $19.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/10/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 4.40" wide x 6.48" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

EMILY FRAGOS is an award-winning poet who teaches creative writing at NYU and Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, and The Paris Review. She is the author of a collection of poetry, Little Savage and editor of the anthologies The Great Cat, The Dance, and Music's Spell. She lives in New York City.