Mary Jacobus: 2 books

Book cover of Romantic Things

Romantic Things

A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud

by Mary Jacobus
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Our thoughts are shaped as much by what things make of us as by what we make of them. Lyric poetry is especially concerned with things and their relationship to thought, sense, and understanding. In Romantic Things, Mary Jacobus explores the world of objects and phenomena in nature as expressed in...
Book cover of Reading Cy Twombly

Reading Cy Twombly

Poetry in Paint

by Mary Jacobus
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016

Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases—naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarmé, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and sometimes hard to decipher, these inscriptions are a distinctive feature of his work. Reading Cy Twombly...
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