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Author Spiegelman, Willard.

Title How poets see the world : the art of description in contemporary poetry / Willard Spiegelman.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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 Moore Stacks  PS310.V57 S67 2005    Available  ---
Description xi, 238 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.
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".
Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American poetry.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Vision in literature.
Vision in literature.
Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
Description (Rhetoric)
History.
Art and literature -- United States.
Art and literature.
United States.
Visual perception in literature.
Visual perception in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Nature in literature.
Nature in literature.
Art in literature.
Art in literature.
Ekphrasis.
Ekphrasis.
ISBN 0195174917 acid-free paper
Standard No. 9780195174915