Art and Artists: Poems

Art and Artists: Poems is a sumptuous collection of visions in verse��he work of centuries of poets who have used their own art form to illuminate art created by others.

A wide variety of visual art forms have inspired great poetry, from painting, sculpture, and photography to tapestry, folk art, and calligraphy. Included here are poems that celebrate Leonardo da Vinci�� Mona Lisa, Claude Monet�� Water Lilies, and Grant Wood�� American Gothic. Here are such well-known poems as John Keats�� ��de on a Grecian Urn��and W. H. Auden�� ��us矇e des Beaux Arts,��Homer�� immortal account of the forging of the shield of Achilles, and Federico Garc穩a Lorca�� breathtaking ode to the surreal paintings of Salvador Dal穩. Allen Ginsberg writes about Cezanne, Anne Sexton about van Gogh, Billy Collins about Hieronymus Bosch, and Kevin Young about Jean-Michel Basquiat. Here too are poems that take on the artists themselves, from Michelangelo and Rembrandt to Frida Kahlo and Georgia O��eeffe. Altogether, this brilliantly curated anthology proves that a picture can be worth a thousand words��r a few very well-chosen ones.
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