How poets see the world the art of description in contemporary poetry - Spiegelman, Willard (New York : Oxford University Press, 2005)
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.
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Keywords: 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; Electronic books