In the Frame - Women''s Ekphrastic Poetry From Marianne Moore to Susan Wheeler

The subject of In the Frame is poetic ekphrasis: poems whose starting point or source of inspiration is a work of visual art. The authors of these sixteen essays, several of whom are poets as well as critics, have a twofold purpose: calling attention to the contribution women poets have made to this important genre of poetic writing and re-thinking ekphrastic poetry's motives and purposes. From Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop to Mary Jo Salter, C. D. Wright, and Susan Wheeler, many of our best women poets have done important work in this genre, and when they describe, confront, or speak for an image that is itself wordless, their motives are not only formal but aesthetic. Their poems also raise important questions, from a perspective that is often, but not always, gender-inflected about how art is made and displayed, experienced and valued, celebrated and commodified.

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Edited by Jane Hedley; Nick Halpern and Willard Spiegelman

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• Authors: Jane Hedley, Jane Halpern Hedley
• Assisted by: Nick Halpern (Editor), Halpern Nick (Editor), Jane Hedley (Editor), Hedley Jane (Editor), Willard Spiegelman (Editor), Spiegelman Willard (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611491098
• ISBN: 978-1-61149-109-8
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry, The arts: general issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, ART / Criticism & Theory, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary reference works, Poetry anthologies (various poets)