How poets see the world
Subtitle: the art of description in contemporary poetry
By: Willard Spiegelman.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780195174915
Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Vision in literature; Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century; Art and literature -- United States; Visual perception in literature; Landscape in literature; Nature in literature; Art in literature; Ekphrasis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: The way things look each day : how poets see the world; title: Just looking : Charles Tomlinson and the "labour of observation"; title: What to make of an augmented thing : Amy Clampitt's syntactic dramas; title: Charles Wright and "the metaphysics of the quotidian"; title: A space for boundless revery : varieties of ekphrastic experience; title: John Ashbery's haunted landscapes; title: Jorie Graham's "new way of looking".