 | Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Still-life in literature; History Modern in literature; Still-life in art; History Modern in art; Poets have long been drawn to the images and techniques of still life. Artists and poets alike present intimate worlds where time is suspended in the play of form and color and where history disappears amid everyday things. The genre of still life... Bonnie Costello is Professor of English at Boston University. She is the author of Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry , Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery , and Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions . She is the editor of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore . |
