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Cole Swensen
Green-Wood, founded in 1838, was a leader in the Rural Cemetery movement in America. Its 478 acres encompass magnificent grounds, grand architecture and world-class statuary. Throughout four seasons, Jacobson's book…
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The poems in this book explore the intersection of writing with the visual arts, particularly late medieval and early Reniassance paintings. They also explore writing as a visual vehicle, both…
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Collected essays by a prominent contemporary poet
National Book Award finalist Cole Swensen’s fascinating meditation on the nature of glass, windows, perception.
Esteemed poet Cole Swensen’s ninth collection is haunted by vision and transfixed by light.
Covering a variety of subjects - from the plague and the first danse macabre to the development of perspective and recipes for pigments - the poems in this collection are…
Here language doesn't define, categorize or lay claim to fact or knowledge. What paltry things such certainties are against the ongoing mystery of the energy stitching one life to every…
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Features poems about gardens, particularly the 17th century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, Andre Le Notre. Using the imagery of the garden, this title considers…
Delving into ancient fables, the Bible, medieval records, Victorian ghost stories, contemporary interviews, and more, this title explores the effects of the ghostly on our daily lives, at times returning…
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A poetry-essay meditation on the cultural and physical forces of the river
A collection of hybrid essays on landscape and visual art that implicitly recognizes our obligations to the earth and presents the earth in ways that make others recognize them too.
A radiant new book-length sequence chronicling the ways observation creates landscape
Looks at the work of various writers for whom walking was or is an important element of daily life. It shows how many of the writers who were or are…
This beautifully packaged and richly illustrated poetry collection is the perfect gift for 21st century women and poetry lovers.
Nicholas Pesques
Overyellow is part of a series that Nicolas Pesques has been writing over the past twenty-five years; beginning with a mountain that he sees outside his study window in the…
Jean Fremon
Financial Times Book of the Year
A chapbook of prose poems on existence and the self, with French on facing pages
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Trey Moody
In the middle of the night, when the fruit is scariest. I hold my hand out and feel your nibbling. Don’t worry, my eyes are still closed. I’ve only peeked…
‘Louise Bourgeois talks, talks to herself, reviewing the scraps of her long life in all their disorder. This is the portrait, from memory, of a woman who devoted her life…
A wry, erudite fable about the first painter to represent the saviour of humankind without his swaddling clothes with drawings by Louise Bourgeois.
Nicholas Pesqus,Nicolas Pesques
Pesqus weaves philosophical reflection in and out of an encounter with the body of the mountain he views from his window, the body of language, and the human body that…
BAX compiles the best writing inspired by an experimental ethos written in North America in 2013. It features 75 works by a diverse range of emerging and established writers. The…
Cole Swensen,David St.John
An anthology that focuses on the blend. It is suitable for those who care about the present moment - and the future - of American verse.
Addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, this volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing.
