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How poets see the world [electronic resource] : the art of description in contemporary poetry / Willard Spiegelman.

By: Spiegelman, Willard.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: xi, 238 p. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): 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 | EkphrasisGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 811.009/22 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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".
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811.009/22 (Browse shelf) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index.

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".

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.