Poems about sculpture / edited and introduced by Murray Dewart ; preface by Robert Pinsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinsky, Robert, author of introduction.

Contributor:

Dewart, Murray, editor.

Series:

Everyman's library pocket poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sculpture--Poetry.

Sculpture.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

255 pages ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

"An anthology of poems from around the world and across the ages on the subject of sculpture"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781101907757

1101907754

OCLC:

933271797