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Bonnie Costello - Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World - 9780801446139 - V9780801446139
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Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World

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Description for Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 450.

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 with its focus on the domestic sphere seemed to some a retreat from the political and economic pressures of the last century. Yet many American artists and writers found in the arrangement of local objects a way to connect the individual to larger public concerns. Indeed, the debates over still life reveal just what is at stake ... Read more

By exploring literary works of still life by Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, and Richard Wilbur—as well as the art of Joseph Cornell—the eminent critic Bonnie Costello considers how exchanges between the arts help to establish vital thresholds between the personal and public realms. In her view, Stevens and Williams bring the turmoil of history into their struggle for local aesthetic order; Bishop "studies history" in the intimate objects and arrangements she finds in her travels; Cornell, an artist inspired by poetry and loved by poets, links his dream boxes to contemporary events; and Richard Wilbur seeks to mend a broken postwar world within the hospitable spheres of art and home. In Planets on Tables, Costello describes a period when some of America's greatest poets and artists found in still life a way to "contemplate the good in the midst of confusion," to bring the distant near, and to resist—rather than escape—the pressures of their times.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801446139
SKU
V9780801446139
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About Bonnie Costello
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.

Reviews for Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World
Bonnie Costello argues for still life as a mode of juxtaposition that can hold contrary ideas at a standstill without merging or synthesizing them. Far from being a minor genre, still life becomes, for the author, the aesthetic end of the more politicized modernism of the 1930s (a point that is qualitatively different from the argument that still life was ... Read more

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