Art and Artists. Poems

Foreword
ODE TO THE ARTIST
ZBIGNIEW HERBERT. Old Masters
TOMAS TRANSTROMER. Vermeer
W. H. AUDEN Musee des Beaux Arts
JOHN BEATS. Ode on a Grecian Urn
JOHN TAGGART. From Slow Song for Mark Rothko
ANNA KAMIENSKA. Rembrandt
STANLEY MOSS. A Glance at Turner
TED KOOSER. A Box of Pastels
RAFAEL ALBERTI. Giotto
RICHARD WILBUR. Wyeth's Milk Cans
EDWARD HIRSCH. From The Horizontal Line
(Homage to Agnes Martin)
CAROLE MASO. From Beauty is Convulsive: The
Passion of Frida Kahlo
KEVIN YOUNG. Urgent Telegram to Jean-Michel
Basquiat
RAFAEL ALBERTI. From Velazquez
HOMER. The Shield of Achilles
MARK DOTY. To Caravaggio
DEREK WALCOTT. Gauguin
J. D. MCCLATCHY. Wolf's Trees
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI. "In Goya's greatest scenes
we seem to see"
DONALD FINKEL. The Great Wave: Hokusai
D. H. LAWRENCE. Corot
ROSANNA WARREN. Renoir
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA. From Ode to Salvador Dali
THE PAINTINGS
JORIE GRAHAM. San Sepolcro
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS. The Dance
AMY LOWELL. On Carpaccio's Picture, The Dream of St.
Ursula
BILLY COLLINS. Musee des Beaux Arts Revisited
SU TUNG P'O. On a Painting by Wang the Clerk of Yen
Ling
PHILIP LARKIN. The Card-Players
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. A Flower-Piece by
Fantin
JAVIER O. HUERTA. Cy Twombly's Untitled (Say
Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor)
CZESLAW MILOSZ. O! (Edward Hopper)
DEREK WALCOTT. Watteau
MARK STRAND. The Disquieting Muses
MONA VAN DUYN. Goya's "Two Old People Eating Soup"
DAN ТЕ GABRIEL ROSSETTI. For An Annunciation,
Early German
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI. Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
ROBERT HAYDEN. Monet's "Waterlilies"
OSIP MANDELSTAM. The Last Supper
CZESLAW MILOSZ. O! (Gustav Klimt)
INGER CHRISTENSEN. Blue Poles
MIROSLAV HOLUB. The Earliest Angels
DELMORE SCHWARTZ. From Seurat's Sunday
Afternoon Along the Seine
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE. On Delacroix's "Tasso in Prison"
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI. For Spring, by Sandro
Botticelli, in the Accademia of Florence
WASHINGTON ALLSTON. On the Group of the
Three Angels Before the Tent of Abraham, by Rafaelle,
in the Vatican
WALLACE STEVENS. From The Man with the Blue Guitar
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT. Wormwood: The Penitents
BRENDA SEABROOKE. On a Windy Wash Day Morn
RICHMOND LATTIMORE. Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
JON STALLWORTHY. Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin
Rouge
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI. "Don't let that horse"
ANNE SEXTON. The Starry Night
X. J. KENNEDY. Nude Descending a Staircase
EDITH WHARTON. From Two Backgrounds
ALLEN GINSBERG. Cezanne's Ports
NATALIE SAFIR. Matisse's Dance
WALT WHITMAN. A Farm Picture
TED KOOSER. The Veteran in a New Field
THE PORTRAIT GALLERY
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI. Vermeer's Little Girl
LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO. Lady with an Ermine
ELIZABETH JENNINGS. Rembrandt's Late Self-Portraits
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. The Cross of
Snow
JOHN DONNE. Witchcraft by a Picture
THOMAS HARDY. On the Portrait of a Woman
About to be Hanged
HERMAN MELVILLE. Formerly a Slave
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. From Before the
Mirror
JOHN STONE. Three for the Mona Lisa
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. In an Artist's Studio
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. From Hamlet
ROBERT BROWNING. My Last Duchess
CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY
Picture of a 23-Year-Old Painted by His Friend of the
Same Age, an Amateur
OSCAR WILDE. Wasted Days
ANNE PROVOOST. Memling's Sibylle Sambetha
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. From Lucrece
JOHN STONE. American Gothic
THE SCULPTURE GARDEN
RAINER MARIA RILKE. Archaic Torso of Apollo
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. Ozymandias
GABRIELA MISTRAL. Rodin's Thinker
RUBEN DARI'O. The Victory of Samothrace
JOHN KEATS. On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
EMMA LAZARUS. The New Colossus
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE, PSEUDO. ANODOS
On a Bas-Relief of Pelops and Hippodameia
CAMILLE GUTHRIE. Mamelles
DONALD HALL. Reclining Figure
KARL SHAPIRO. A Calder
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. Hiram Powers' Greek
Slave
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. The Dead Christ
ROBERT BROWNING. The "Moses" of Michael Angelo
MINA LOY. Brancusi's Golden Bird
SAMUEL ROGERS. To the Fragment of a Statue of
Hercules, Commonly Called the Torso
E. E. CUMMINGS. "these children singing in stone"
CARL SANDBURG. The Walking Man of Rodin
CESAR VALLEJO. From Trilce
VARIETIES OF ARTISTRY
CHARLES SIMIC. Joseph Cornell's Hotel du Nord
TED HUGHES. The Virgin
ADRIENNE RICH. Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
DAVID HARRISON. It's Me!
CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY. Craftsman of Wine Bowls
SIV CEDERING. Sit a While
WILLIAM STRODE. From On the Picture of Two
Dolphins in a Fountayne
AMY LOWELL. A Coloured Print by Shokei
JOHN MILTON. On the Engraver of His Likeness
JOHN DONNE. Antiquary
JAMES MERRILL. Hindu Illumination
AMY LOWELL. The Emperor's Garden
THEOCRITUS. From The Idylls, I
KWAME DAWES. Body Mask
RAINER MARIA RILKE. The Mask
EAVAN BOLAND. On the Gift of The Birds of
America by John James Audubon
MARIE PONSOT. Reading a Large Serving Dish
WILLIAM JAY SMITH. Woman at the Piano
AMY LOWELL. Calligraphy
AMY LOWELL. Pair of Scrolls
MAY SARTON. The Lady and the Unicorn
MARIANNE MOORE. An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in
the Shape of a Fish
JAMES THOMSON ("B.V."). From The City of Dreadful
Night
RAINER MARIA RILKE. Roman Fountain
HERMAN MELVILLE. The Figure-Head
MAY SARTON. The Stone Garden
EAVAN BOLAND. The Carousel in the Park
ARCHITECTURE
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA. Facing It
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Within King's College Chapel,
Cambridge
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. The Old Bridge at
Florence
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. From Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage
MATTHEW ARNOLD. From Westminster Abbey
HERMAN MELVILLE. Pisa's Leaning Tower
OSIP MANDELSTAM. Notre Dame
HART CRANE. To Brooklyn Bridge
OSIP MANDELSTAM. Hagia Sophia
HERMAN MELVILLE. The Parthenon
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. From Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage
RABINDRANATH TAGORE. From Shah-Jahan
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. From Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage
PHOTOGRAPHY
DAVID FERRY. Plate 134. By Eakins. "A COWBOY
IN THE WEST. AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN AT
THE BADGER COMPANY RANCH."
LUCILLE CLIFTON. photograph
MARY JO BANG. Machine Dance
КАТЕ DANIELS. War Photograph
THOM GUNN. "Something approaches ..."
RAINER MARIA RILKE. Portrait of My Father as a
Young Man
HERMAN MELVILLE. On the Photograph of a Corps
Commander
OUTSIDER ART
JOHN ASHBERY. From Girls on the Run
EMILY FRAGOS. Art Brut
ELIZABETH SPIRES. Girl Thinking
EMILY FRAGOS. Figure with Hat
JEAN VALENTINE. Don't Silence Yourself, No Те Calles
PAINTER AS POET
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI. Grateful is Sleep
J. M. W. TURNER. The Slave Ship
J. M. W. TURNER On London, 1809
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI. Body's Beauty
WILLIAM BLAKE. Holy Thursday
WILLIAM BLAKE. The Tyger
AT THE MUSEUM
ROBERT HASS. Museum
CHARLES BUKOWSKI. On Going Back to the Street
After Viewing an Art Show
RITA DOVE. In the Museum
MONICA YOUN. Stealing The Scream
THOMAS HARDY. In a Museum
RICHARD WILBUR. Museum Piece
RYSZARD KRYNICKI. The Museum of Fine Arts in
Budapest
LANGSTON HUGHES. Metropolitan Museum
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