Moving Pictures - Joseph Stanton

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Résumé :
The author of this impressive collection of poems, Joseph Stanton, is both a scholar and masterful practitioner of ekphrastic poetry. His commitment to the form is evident in Moving Pictures, his third collection of ekphrastic poems. In this volume, Stanton offers poems inspired by both European artists (Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Ren? Magritte, and others) and American artists (Winslow Homer, Thomas Cole, Edward Hopper, and others). In the section Painting the Corners, there are, among others, poems on Andy Warhol's Baseball, Lisa Dinhofer's Spring Street Hardball, and the classic photo of Jackie Robinson stealing home. In the final section, Screens in the Dark, Stanton's poems are about movies, including Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Groundhog Day. Like his previous work, this volume shows Stanton's exquisite sense of perception and insight as he indulges readers with new ways of seeing art.

Biographie:
Joseph Stanton's previous books of poems are Joseph Stanton's previous books of poems are Things Seen, Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art, A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban Oahu, Cardinal Points: Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball, and What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem (co-authored with Makoto Ooka, Wing Tek Lum, and Jean Toyama). His other sorts of books include Looking for Edward Gorey, The Important Books: Children's Picture Books as Art and Literature, Stan Musial: A Biography, and A Hawai'i Anthology. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Harvard Review, New Letters, Ekphrasis, Antioch Review, Ekphrastic Review, Poetry East, Cortland Review, New York Quarterly, and many other magazines. He has collaborated on many occasions with artists, musicians, and other writers. He has received many awards for his work - including the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award, the Cades Award for Literature, and the Ekphrasis Prize. He is Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He occasionally teaches poetry workshops, such as the Starting with Art workshops he has taught at Poets House and the Honolulu Museum of Art. (co-authored with Makoto Ooka, Wing Tek Lum, and Jean Toyama). His other sorts of books include Looking for Edward Gorey, The Important Books: Children's Picture Books as Art and Literature, Stan Musial: A Biography, and A Hawai'i Anthology. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Harvard Review, New Letters, Ekphrasis, Antioch Review, Ekphrastic Review, Poetry East, Cortland Review, New York Quarterly, and many other magazines. He has collaborated on many occasions with artists, musicians, and other writers. He has received many awards for his work - including the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award, the Cades Award for Literature, and the Ekphrasis Prize. He is Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He occasionally teaches poetry workshops, such as the Starting with Art workshops he has taught at Poets House and the Honolulu Museum of Art.