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Iowans in the Arts
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A Dream of Love
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Twelve Poems
Poetry. "It was a joy to reread these powerful poems and your comments. It was like going to a poetry reading when the poet talks amply about the poems in between them, a custom I always like"--X.J. Kennedy. Joseph Langland was born in Minnesota in 1917, and has been a presence in American poetry for fifty years. He founded the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he lives. This selection of work constitutes a kind of autobiography, reaching through the work to its materials, with a kind of fondness and sadness, and an engaging small vanity.
The Wheel of Summer
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Museum of Words
Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art, the verbal representation of visual representation. Profoundly ambivalent, ekphrastic poetry celebrates the power of the silent image even as it tries to circumscribe that power with the authority of the word. Over the ages its practitioners have created a museum of words about real and imaginary paintings and sculptures. In the first book ever to explore this museum, James Heffernan argues that ekphrasis stages a battle for mastery between the image and the word. Moving from the epics of Homer, Virgil, and Dante to contemporary American poetry, this book treats the history of struggle between rival systems of representation. Readable and well illustrated, this study of how poets have represented painting and sculpture is a major contribution to our understanding of the relation between the arts.
