Mary Jacobus: 2 books
Romantic Things
A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud
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...
Reading Cy Twombly
Poetry in Paint
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...