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- Summary
- This volume devoted to ekphrasis - poems inspired by paintings, and paintings inspired by poems - explores the art of transformation from one medium into another. Examples include William Carlos Williams's series of poems based on Breughel paintings and Delmore Schwartz's interpretation of Georges Seurat's iconic "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 137 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction / Scott Gutterman
- Poem; Painting
- Archaic torso of Apollo / Rainer Maria Rilke; Torso of Milet
- Die mühle brennt / Richard Matthews; The mill is burning-Richard / Georg Baselitz
- The great figure / William Carlos Williams; I saw the figure 5 in gold / Charles Demuth
- Cézanne's ports / Allen Ginsberg; The Gulf of Marseilles seen from L'Estaque / Paul Cézanne
- Mourning picture / Adrienne Rich; Mourning / Edwin Romanzo Elmer
- Excerpt from Seurat's Sunday afternoon along the Seine / Delmore Schwartz; A Sunday on La Grande Jatte / Georges Seurat
- Musée des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden; Landscape with the fall of Icarus / Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- The wedding dance in the open air / William Carlos Williams; The wedding dance / Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- Excerpt from the man with the blue guitar / Wallace Stevens; The old guitarist / Pablo Picasso
- Excerpt from homage to Paul Cézanne / Charles Wright; Mont Sainte-Victoire / Paul Cézanne
- Guernica / Norman Rosten; Guernica / Pablo Picasso
- Excerpt from the jinx by Stéphane Mallarmé; "Le Guignon" from "Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé" / Henri Matisse
- Museum piece / Richard Wilbur; Two dancers on a stage / Edgar Degas
- Excerpt from objects & apparitions / Octavio Paz; Space object box: "Little Bear, etc." motif / Joseph Cornell
- Excerpt from ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats; Sosibios vase
- Excerpt from poem / Elizabeth Bishop; Untitled / George Hutchinson
- Stuart Davis: premier, 1957 / X.J. Kennedy; Premiere / Stuart Davis
- Roses / Pierre de Ronsard; Illustration for "Le Passant et le Génie" in "Florilège des amours de Ronsard" / Henri Matisse
- Spring (the procession) / Rachel Wetzsteon; Spring (the procession) / Joseph Stella
- Excerpt from Sweeney Agonistes / T.S. Eliot; Triptych inspired by T.S. Eliot / Francis Bacon
- Sunflowers / Robert Fagles; Fourteen sunflowers in a vase / Vincent van Gogh
- The car / Jane Freilicher and Kenneth Koch; The car / Jane Freilicher
- excerpt from the garden of earthly delights / Czestaw Mitosz; The garden of earthly delights / Hieronymus Bosch
- Excerpt from the horizontal line (homage to Agnes Martin) / Edward Hirsch; Friendship / Agnes Martin
- Canto I, the inferno / Dante Alighieri; "CantoI: The Dark Wood of Error," from the series "Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante's Inferno" / Robert Rauschenberg
- Excerpt from the knight, death, and the devil / Randall Jarrell; Knight, death, and the devil / Albrecht Dürer
- Excerpt from the temeraire / Herman Melville; The fighting temeraire / J.M.W. Turner
- Excerpt from the violinist at the window, 1918 / Jorie Graham; The violinist at the window (le violoniste à la fenêtre) / Henri Matisse
- Excerpt from sonnets to Orpheus / Rainer Maria Rilke; Orpheus (thou unending trace) / Cy Twombly
- Excerpt from to Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane
- Brooklyn Bridge / Joseph Stella
- Van Gogh's bed / Jane Flanders; Bedroom in Arles / Vincent van Gogh
- Vermeer's little girl / Adam Zagajewski; Girl with a pearl earring / Johannes Vermeer
- What the water gave me (IV) / Pascale Petit; What the water gave me / Frida Kahlo
- Excerpt from the Upanishads; From the Upanishads / Francesco Clemente
- The starry night / Anne Sexton; The starry night / Vincent van Gogh
- The wound is where the light enters you / Rumi; Bodies of light / Bill Viola
- Excerpt from self-portrait in a convex mirror / John Ashbery; Self- portrait in a convex mirror / Parmigianino
- Why I am not a painter / Frank O'Hara; Sardines / Michael Goldberg
- On seeing the Elgin Marbles / John Keats; The Elgin Marbles
- Excerpt from on the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery / Percy Bysshe Shelley; Medusa's head / a Flemish Painter (previously attributed to Leonardo da Vinci)
- Excerpt from the ninth elegy (the duino elegies) / Rainer Maria Rilke; Untitled (say goodbye, Catullus, to the shoes of Asia Minor) / Cy Twombly
- Excerpt from for the Union dead / Robert Lowell; Memorial to Robert Goult Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment / Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Vermeer / Wistawa Szymorska; The milkmaid / Johannes Vermeer
- Excerpt from Hamlet / William Shakespeare; Ophelia / Sir John Everett Millais
- Winter landscape / John Berryman; Hunters in the snow / Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- To Marc Chagall / Paul Éluard; The bride / Marc Chagall
- On seeing Larry Rivers' Washington crossing the Delaware / Frank O'Hara; Washington crossing the Delaware / Larry Rivers
- The dance / William Carlos Williams; The peasant dance / Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- Hills, South Truro / Ernest Farrés; Hills, South Truro / Edward Hopper
- Actaeon / George Szirtex; Diana and Actaeon / Titan
- Girl powdering her neck / Cathy Song; Girl powdering her neck / Kitagawa Utamaro
- For Mark Rothko / Jorie Graham
- Ochre and red on red / Mark Rothko
- To one who is too gay / Charles Baudelaire; Illustration for "Poemes" / Charles Despiau
- At the frick / Anthony Hecht;Sst. Francis of Assisi in the desert / Giovanni Bellini
- Excerpt from a few days / James Schuyler; A few days I (after James Schuyler) / Joan Mitchell
- Excerpt from in memory of my feelings / Frank O'Hara; In memory of my feelings / Jasper Johns
- List of illustrations and poems
- Isbn
- 9783791354774
- Label
- Sunlight on the river : poems about paintings, paintings about poems
- Title
- Sunlight on the river
- Title remainder
- poems about paintings, paintings about poems
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Scott Gutterman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This volume devoted to ekphrasis - poems inspired by paintings, and paintings inspired by poems - explores the art of transformation from one medium into another. Examples include William Carlos Williams's series of poems based on Breughel paintings and Delmore Schwartz's interpretation of Georges Seurat's iconic "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte."
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Gutterman, Scott
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- Art
- Painting
- Art and literature
- Ekphrasis
- Art and literature
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- Ekphrasis
- Painting
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- Sunlight on the river : poems about paintings, paintings about poems, edited by Scott Gutterman
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- Introduction / Scott Gutterman -- Poem; Painting -- Archaic torso of Apollo / Rainer Maria Rilke; Torso of Milet -- Die mühle brennt / Richard Matthews; The mill is burning-Richard / Georg Baselitz -- The great figure / William Carlos Williams; I saw the figure 5 in gold / Charles Demuth -- Cézanne's ports / Allen Ginsberg; The Gulf of Marseilles seen from L'Estaque / Paul Cézanne -- Mourning picture / Adrienne Rich; Mourning / Edwin Romanzo Elmer -- Excerpt from Seurat's Sunday afternoon along the Seine / Delmore Schwartz; A Sunday on La Grande Jatte / Georges Seurat -- Musée des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden; Landscape with the fall of Icarus / Pieter Brueghel the Elder -- The wedding dance in the open air / William Carlos Williams; The wedding dance / Pieter Brueghel the Elder -- Excerpt from the man with the blue guitar / Wallace Stevens; The old guitarist / Pablo Picasso -- Excerpt from homage to Paul Cézanne / Charles Wright; Mont Sainte-Victoire / Paul Cézanne -- Guernica / Norman Rosten; Guernica / Pablo Picasso -- Excerpt from the jinx by Stéphane Mallarmé; "Le Guignon" from "Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé" / Henri Matisse -- Museum piece / Richard Wilbur; Two dancers on a stage / Edgar Degas -- Excerpt from objects & apparitions / Octavio Paz; Space object box: "Little Bear, etc." motif / Joseph Cornell -- Excerpt from ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats; Sosibios vase -- Excerpt from poem / Elizabeth Bishop; Untitled / George Hutchinson -- Stuart Davis: premier, 1957 / X.J. Kennedy; Premiere / Stuart Davis -- Roses / Pierre de Ronsard; Illustration for "Le Passant et le Génie" in "Florilège des amours de Ronsard" / Henri Matisse -- Spring (the procession) / Rachel Wetzsteon; Spring (the procession) / Joseph Stella -- Excerpt from Sweeney Agonistes / T.S. Eliot; Triptych inspired by T.S. Eliot / Francis Bacon -- Sunflowers / Robert Fagles; Fourteen sunflowers in a vase / Vincent van Gogh -- The car / Jane Freilicher and Kenneth Koch; The car / Jane Freilicher -- excerpt from the garden of earthly delights / Czestaw Mitosz; The garden of earthly delights / Hieronymus Bosch -- Excerpt from the horizontal line (homage to Agnes Martin) / Edward Hirsch; Friendship / Agnes Martin -- Canto I, the inferno / Dante Alighieri; "CantoI: The Dark Wood of Error," from the series "Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante's Inferno" / Robert Rauschenberg -- Excerpt from the knight, death, and the devil / Randall Jarrell; Knight, death, and the devil / Albrecht Dürer -- Excerpt from the temeraire / Herman Melville; The fighting temeraire / J.M.W. Turner -- Excerpt from the violinist at the window, 1918 / Jorie Graham; The violinist at the window (le violoniste à la fenêtre) / Henri Matisse -- Excerpt from sonnets to Orpheus / Rainer Maria Rilke; Orpheus (thou unending trace) / Cy Twombly -- Excerpt from to Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane -- Brooklyn Bridge / Joseph Stella -- Van Gogh's bed / Jane Flanders; Bedroom in Arles / Vincent van Gogh -- Vermeer's little girl / Adam Zagajewski; Girl with a pearl earring / Johannes Vermeer -- What the water gave me (IV) / Pascale Petit; What the water gave me / Frida Kahlo -- Excerpt from the Upanishads; From the Upanishads / Francesco Clemente -- The starry night / Anne Sexton; The starry night / Vincent van Gogh -- The wound is where the light enters you / Rumi; Bodies of light / Bill Viola -- Excerpt from self-portrait in a convex mirror / John Ashbery; Self- portrait in a convex mirror / Parmigianino -- Why I am not a painter / Frank O'Hara; Sardines / Michael Goldberg -- On seeing the Elgin Marbles / John Keats; The Elgin Marbles -- Excerpt from on the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery / Percy Bysshe Shelley; Medusa's head / a Flemish Painter (previously attributed to Leonardo da Vinci) -- Excerpt from the ninth elegy (the duino elegies) / Rainer Maria Rilke; Untitled (say goodbye, Catullus, to the shoes of Asia Minor) / Cy Twombly -- Excerpt from for the Union dead / Robert Lowell; Memorial to Robert Goult Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment / Augustus Saint-Gaudens -- Vermeer / Wistawa Szymorska; The milkmaid / Johannes Vermeer -- Excerpt from Hamlet / William Shakespeare; Ophelia / Sir John Everett Millais -- Winter landscape / John Berryman; Hunters in the snow / Pieter Brueghel the Elder -- To Marc Chagall / Paul Éluard; The bride / Marc Chagall -- On seeing Larry Rivers' Washington crossing the Delaware / Frank O'Hara; Washington crossing the Delaware / Larry Rivers -- The dance / William Carlos Williams; The peasant dance / Pieter Brueghel the Elder -- Hills, South Truro / Ernest Farrés; Hills, South Truro / Edward Hopper -- Actaeon / George Szirtex; Diana and Actaeon / Titan -- Girl powdering her neck / Cathy Song; Girl powdering her neck / Kitagawa Utamaro -- For Mark Rothko / Jorie Graham -- Ochre and red on red / Mark Rothko -- To one who is too gay / Charles Baudelaire; Illustration for "Poemes" / Charles Despiau -- At the frick / Anthony Hecht;Sst. Francis of Assisi in the desert / Giovanni Bellini -- Excerpt from a few days / James Schuyler; A few days I (after James Schuyler) / Joan Mitchell -- Excerpt from in memory of my feelings / Frank O'Hara; In memory of my feelings / Jasper Johns -- List of illustrations and poems
- Control code
- 907660989
- Dimensions
- 28 cm
- Extent
- 137 pages
- Isbn
- 9783791354774
- Lccn
- 2015942929
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color), portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)907660989
- Label
- Sunlight on the river : poems about paintings, paintings about poems, edited by Scott Gutterman
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
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- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction / Scott Gutterman -- Poem; Painting -- Archaic torso of Apollo / Rainer Maria Rilke; Torso of Milet -- Die mühle brennt / Richard Matthews; The mill is burning-Richard / Georg Baselitz -- The great figure / William Carlos Williams; I saw the figure 5 in gold / Charles Demuth -- Cézanne's ports / Allen Ginsberg; The Gulf of Marseilles seen from L'Estaque / Paul Cézanne -- Mourning picture / Adrienne Rich; Mourning / Edwin Romanzo Elmer -- Excerpt from Seurat's Sunday afternoon along the Seine / Delmore Schwartz; A Sunday on La Grande Jatte / Georges Seurat -- Musée des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden; Landscape with the fall of Icarus / Pieter Brueghel the Elder -- The wedding dance in the open air / William Carlos Williams; The wedding dance / Pieter Brueghel the Elder -- Excerpt from the man with the blue guitar / Wallace Stevens; The old guitarist / Pablo Picasso -- Excerpt from homage to Paul Cézanne / Charles Wright; Mont Sainte-Victoire / Paul Cézanne -- Guernica / Norman Rosten; Guernica / Pablo Picasso -- Excerpt from the jinx by Stéphane Mallarmé; "Le Guignon" from "Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé" / Henri Matisse -- Museum piece / Richard Wilbur; Two dancers on a stage / Edgar Degas -- Excerpt from objects & apparitions / Octavio Paz; Space object box: "Little Bear, etc." motif / Joseph Cornell -- Excerpt from ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats; Sosibios vase -- Excerpt from poem / Elizabeth Bishop; Untitled / George Hutchinson -- Stuart Davis: premier, 1957 / X.J. Kennedy; Premiere / Stuart Davis -- Roses / Pierre de Ronsard; Illustration for "Le Passant et le Génie" in "Florilège des amours de Ronsard" / Henri Matisse -- Spring (the procession) / Rachel Wetzsteon; Spring (the procession) / Joseph Stella -- Excerpt from Sweeney Agonistes / T.S. Eliot; Triptych inspired by T.S. Eliot / Francis Bacon -- Sunflowers / Robert Fagles; Fourteen sunflowers in a vase / Vincent van Gogh -- The car / Jane Freilicher and Kenneth Koch; The car / Jane Freilicher -- excerpt from the garden of earthly delights / Czestaw Mitosz; The garden of earthly delights / Hieronymus Bosch -- Excerpt from the horizontal line (homage to Agnes Martin) / Edward Hirsch; Friendship / Agnes Martin -- Canto I, the inferno / Dante Alighieri; "CantoI: The Dark Wood of Error," from the series "Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante's Inferno" / Robert Rauschenberg -- Excerpt from the knight, death, and the devil / Randall Jarrell; Knight, death, and the devil / Albrecht Dürer -- Excerpt from the temeraire / Herman Melville; The fighting temeraire / J.M.W. Turner -- Excerpt from the violinist at the window, 1918 / Jorie Graham; The violinist at the window (le violoniste à la fenêtre) / Henri Matisse -- Excerpt from sonnets to Orpheus / Rainer Maria Rilke; Orpheus (thou unending trace) / Cy Twombly -- Excerpt from to Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane -- Brooklyn Bridge / Joseph Stella -- Van Gogh's bed / Jane Flanders; Bedroom in Arles / Vincent van Gogh -- Vermeer's little girl / Adam Zagajewski; Girl with a pearl earring / Johannes Vermeer -- What the water gave me (IV) / Pascale Petit; What the water gave me / Frida Kahlo -- Excerpt from the Upanishads; From the Upanishads / Francesco Clemente -- The starry night / Anne Sexton; The starry night / Vincent van Gogh -- The wound is where the light enters you / Rumi; Bodies of light / Bill Viola -- Excerpt from self-portrait in a convex mirror / John Ashbery; Self- portrait in a convex mirror / Parmigianino -- Why I am not a painter / Frank O'Hara; Sardines / Michael Goldberg -- On seeing the Elgin Marbles / John Keats; The Elgin Marbles -- Excerpt from on the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery / Percy Bysshe Shelley; Medusa's head / a Flemish Painter (previously attributed to Leonardo da Vinci) -- Excerpt from the ninth elegy (the duino elegies) / Rainer Maria Rilke; Untitled (say goodbye, Catullus, to the shoes of Asia Minor) / Cy Twombly -- Excerpt from for the Union dead / Robert Lowell; Memorial to Robert Goult Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment / Augustus Saint-Gaudens -- Vermeer / Wistawa Szymorska; The milkmaid / Johannes Vermeer -- Excerpt from Hamlet / William Shakespeare; Ophelia / Sir John Everett Millais -- Winter landscape / John Berryman; Hunters in the snow / Pieter Brueghel the Elder -- To Marc Chagall / Paul Éluard; The bride / Marc Chagall -- On seeing Larry Rivers' Washington crossing the Delaware / Frank O'Hara; Washington crossing the Delaware / Larry Rivers -- The dance / William Carlos Williams; The peasant dance / Pieter Brueghel the Elder -- Hills, South Truro / Ernest Farrés; Hills, South Truro / Edward Hopper -- Actaeon / George Szirtex; Diana and Actaeon / Titan -- Girl powdering her neck / Cathy Song; Girl powdering her neck / Kitagawa Utamaro -- For Mark Rothko / Jorie Graham -- Ochre and red on red / Mark Rothko -- To one who is too gay / Charles Baudelaire; Illustration for "Poemes" / Charles Despiau -- At the frick / Anthony Hecht;Sst. Francis of Assisi in the desert / Giovanni Bellini -- Excerpt from a few days / James Schuyler; A few days I (after James Schuyler) / Joan Mitchell -- Excerpt from in memory of my feelings / Frank O'Hara; In memory of my feelings / Jasper Johns -- List of illustrations and poems
- Control code
- 907660989
- Dimensions
- 28 cm
- Extent
- 137 pages
- Isbn
- 9783791354774
- Lccn
- 2015942929
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color), portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)907660989
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