TY - BOOK AU - Spiegelman, Willard AU - Hedley, Jane AU - Halpern, Nick TI - In the frame : women's ekphrastic poetry from Marianne Moore to Susan Wheeler SN - 9780874130461 (alk. paper) U1 - 811.5 HEA PY - 2009/// CY - Newark PB - University of Delaware Press KW - American poetry - Women authors - History and criticism KW - American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism KW - Ekphrasis N1 -

Includes bibliographical references and index.

; Toward a theory of ekphrasis : the female tradition / Joanne Feit Diehl -- The lamplit answer? : Gjertrud Schnackenberg's antiekphrases / Paul H. Fry -- Noisy brides, suspicious kisses : revising ravishment in experimental ekphrasis by women / Barbara Fischer -- Women look at women : prophecy and retrospect in six ekphrastic poems / Karl Kirchwey -- To really see the dragon / Rachel Hadas -- Women looking : the feminist ekphrasis of Marianne Moore and Adrienne Rich / Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux -- Elizabeth Bishop and the art of still life / Bonnie Costello -- Ekphrasis and the fabric of the familiar in Mary Jo Salter's poetry / Jonathan F.S. Post -- Jorie Graham looking / Willard Spiegelman -- Rita Dove's body politics / Jane Hedley -- "To oppose myself to the declared desires of others" : Louise Glück's ekphrastic poetry / Nick Halpern -- Lightsource, aperture, face : C.D. Wright and photography / Stephen Burt -- "The grammar of the night" : ekphrasis and loss in Lucie Brock-Broido's Trouble in mind / M. Wynn Thomas -- Poet as model (a brief catalog) / Terri Witek -- Grace Schulman seeing / Mary Ann Caws -- "Pregnant and smoking" : Susan Wheeler's "Debtor in the convex mirror" / Stephen Yenser ER -