In the frame
Subtitle: women's ekphrastic poetry from Marianne Moore to Susan Wheeler
By: edited by Jane Hedley, Nick Halpern, and Willard Spiegelman.
Contributors: Hedley, Jane.; Halpern, Nick.; Spiegelman, Willard.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newark; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780874130461
Subjects: American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Ekphrasis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a theory of ekphrasis : the female tradition / Joanne Feit Diehl; title: The lamplit answer : Gjertrud Schnackenberg's antiekphrases / Paul H. Fry; title: Noisy brides, suspicious kisses: revising ravishment in experimental ekphrasis by women / Barbara Fischer; title: Women look at women : prophecy and retrospect in six ekphrastic poems / Karl Kirchwey; title: To really see the dragon / Rachel Hadas; title: Women looking : the feminist ekphrasis of Marianne Moore and Adrienne Rich / Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux; title: Elizabeth Bishop and the art of still life / Bonnie Costello; title: Ekphrasis and the fabric of the familiar in Mary Jo Salter's poetry / Jonathan F. S. Post; title: Jorie Graham looking / Willard Spiegelman; title: Rita Dove's body politics / Jane Hedley; title: "To oppose myself to the declared desires of others" : Louise Glück's ekphrastic poetry / Nick Halpern; title: Lightsource, aperture, face : C.D. Wright and photography / Stephen Burt; title: "The grammar of the night" : ekphrasis and loss in Lucie Brock-Broido's Trouble in mind / M. Wynn Thomas; title: Poet as model (a brief catalog) / Terri Witek; title: Grace Schulman seeing / Mary Ann Caws; title: "Pregnant and smoking" : Susan Wheeler's "Debtor in the convex mirror" / Stephen Yenser.