Title: Galería de palabras
Description: Essays exploring relationship between visual and literary arts. Revives and expands on age-old concept of ekphrasis, referring to rhetorical exercise offering dramatic description of work of art. Pairs and compares writers with artists of many cultures and time periods: William Carlos Williams and Seamus Heaney with Brueghel; Margaret Atwood with Manet; Joseph Cornell with Octavio Paz and Elizabeth Bishop; and others.
Subjects: Art and literature, Modern Literature, History and criticism, Literature, Theory, Intertextuality