The way things look each day : how poets see the world -- Just looking : Charles Tomlinson and the "labour of observation" -- What to make of an augmented thing : Amy Clampitt's syntactic dramas -- Charles Wright and "the metaphysics of the quotidian" -- A space for boundless revery : varieties of ekphrastic experience -- John Ashbery's haunted landscapes -- Jorie Graham's "new way of looking".
Includes bibliographical references )p. 201-217( and index.
the art of description in contemporary poetry
American poetry- 20th century- History and criticism
Vision in literature
Description )Rhetoric(- History- 20th century
Art and literature- United States
Visual perception in literature
Landscapes in literature
Nature in literature
Art in literature
Ekphrasis
PS
310
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V57
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S67
2005
Spiegelman, Willard.
Title
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