About the Book
What are poets looking at, looking for, when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American and British poets about painting. The poets bring to their task a fresh eye and a freshened language, vivid with nuance and color and force.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Art and Ideas
William Butler Yeats
Vorticism
Ezra Pound
A Matisse and
Painting in the American Grain
William Carlos Williams
Robert Andrew Parker
Marianne Moore
From Introduction to These Paintings
D. H. Lawrence
Pictures
Gertrude Stein
The Relations between Poetry and Painting
Wallace Stevens
Calm Even in the Catastrophe
W.H.Auden
Painters as Writers
Stephen Spender
Foreword to an Exhibit
E. E. Cummings
Gregorio Valdes
Elizabeth Bishop
The Heroic Object and Fernand Uger
Kenneth Rexroth
On Poetry and Painting,
with a Thought on Music
Howard Nemerov
Against Abstract Expressionism
Randall Jarrell
Jackson Pollock
Frank O'Hara
A Note on Franz Kline
Robert Creeley
An Art of Wondering
Robert Duncan
Balthus
Guy Davenport
Respect for Things as They Are
John Ashbery
The Painting of Jane Freilicher
James Schuyler
The Poet as Painter
Charles Tomlinson
The Hanged Man and the Dragonfly
Ted Hughes
Notes on Corot 3
James Merrill
Fragments of a "Rodin"
Richard Howard
Crossing the Tracks to Hopper's World
Mark Strand
Landscape's Empire
John Hollander
