Art in Time

Art in Time
Cole Swensen
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20 May 2021 US
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9781643620374
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*Of interest to readers of poetry and people interested in visual art, art history, ecology, and land management*Artists included: Willem de Kooning, Rosa Bonheur, Tacita Dean, Robert Smithson, Sally Mann, Chaim Soutine, Joan Jonas, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Agnes Martin, Renee Gladman, Frederick Law Olmsted, Andre des Gachons, Zineb Sedira, Irving Petlin, Gustav Klimt, Zao Wou-ki, Agnes Varda, David Hockney, George Shiras, Christo & Jeanne-Claude*Themes in this book could fall under the umbrella of "ecopoetics"*Author is currently a professor, Brown University*Previously a professor at University of Denver 1996-2001, Iowa Writers' Workshop 2001-2012, Brown University 2012-present*Ph. D. 1994. Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz*Prizes/Awards/Fellowships: Villa Le Notre Residency Grant, Ecole nationale superieure de paysage; Finalist, Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry, Hungarian PEN Club; Creative Capital Grant; Beinecke Library, Yale, writer-in-residence; Guggenheim Fellowship; Creative Capital Grant; Pushcart Prize; PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation; Pushcart Prize; San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award; Iowa Poetry Prize; Bay Area Award Series in Poetry, New Langton Arts; New American Poetry Series, Sun & Moon Press; Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Writing; Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Writing; National Poetry Serie
"In this book, Cole Swensen challenges the tension between land and landscape and the relative relationship of each to ' reality' -and her instinct is infallible. She' s a guide, a mentor, a blessing, an event. She explores the thinking behind the works of numerous artists who elevate contemporary culture to our highest expectations. "-Etel Adnan"I can' t think of another writer who writes as precisely and insightfully as Cole Swensen about humans contemplating a landscape, and the perceptions and associations implied by the use of such terms as ' vastness' and ' timeless. ' In the 20 poem-essays (or are they encyclopedia entries? ) that make up Art in Time, Swensen writes about a wide range of singular figures: Robert Smithson, Agnes Varda, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Rosa Bonheur, Chaim Soutine, Joan Jonas, Irving Petlin, and Renee Gladman. Brimming with fresh and precise readings, full of little known details and revelations, Art in Time is that rare book. You will want to bring it with you when walking in the woods, visiting a National Park, driving in the desert, or going to a museum. In these pages, you will discover insights into artists that you thought you knew and ones that you have never heard of before. You will begin thinking about landscapes differently. "-John Yau"Highly esteemed, always challenging, sometimes austere, Swensen has a career marked by projects, book-length poems spurred by clear formal goals. "-Publishers Weekly "Her poetry is like Dickinson without the syncopation. . . numinous, in fact. "-John Ashbery, The Times Literary Supplement "Swensen' s poetry documents a penetrating ' intellectus' -light of the mind-by turns fragile, incandescent, transcendent. "-Anne Waldman
Cole Swensen is the author of 17 books of poetry, most recently On Walking On (Nightboat, 2017), and a collection of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise (U. of Michigan, 2011). Her work has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the S. F. State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series, and has been a finalist twice for the L. A. Times Book Award and once for the National Book Award. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she co-edited the Norton anthology American Hybrid and is the founding editor of La Presse. She has translated over twenty books of French poetry, creative non-fiction, and art criticism, including Jean Fremon' s Island of the Dead, which won the PEN USA Award in Translation. She divides her time between Paris and Providence R. I. , where she teaches at Brown University.
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ISBN-13: 9781643620374
Published: 20 May 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Nightboat Books
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 139mm
Pages: 136

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