Description: Poems About Sculpture is a unique anthology of poems from around the world and across the ages about our most enduring art form.
Sculpture has the longest memory of the arts: from the Paleolithic era, we find stone carvings and clay figures embedded with human longing. And poets have long been fascinated by the idea of eternity embodied by the monumental temples and fragmented statues of ancient civilizations. From Keats’s Grecian urn and Shelley’s “Ozymandias” to contemporary verse about Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Janet Echelman’s wind-borne hovering nets, the pieces in this collection convert the physical materials of the plastic arts—clay, wood, glass, marble, granite, bronze, and more—into lapidary lines of poetry. Whether the sculptures celebrated here commemorate love or war, objects or apparitions, forms human or divine, they have called forth evocative responses from a wide range of poets, including Homer, Ovid, Shakespeare, Baudelaire, Rilke, Dickinson, Yeats, Auden, and Plath. A compendium of dazzling examples of one art form reflecting on another, Poems About Sculpture is a treat for art lovers of all kinds.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Poems about Sculpture
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Sculpture & Installation, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Art, Poetry
Item Weight: 8.2 Oz
Author: Murray Dewart
Item Length: 6.5 in
Item Width: 4.4 in
Book Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Format: Hardcover
