Tag: ekphrasis

The Painterly Eye

by Nicolette Stasko It would be an understatement to say that almost every poet has written about art. I could use this entire post to list only the Australians. In his preface to Writers on Artists, Daniel Halpern comments, ‘many important writers have spent a significant part of their non-writing time thinking about painting and sculpture’[1]. The American poet, John Ashbery, also an art critic and friend of artists, immediately comes to mind along with his brilliant long poem, ‘Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror’, ‘As Parmigianino did it, the right hand/Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer. … The…

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