Mrs. Ramsay's Knee

by Idris Anderson

Overview

Volume 12 in the Swenson Poetry Award Series, Mrs. Ramsay's Knee offers fresh and elegant poems by Idris anderson, many of them ekphrastic considerations of visual works of art. Among her subjects are paintings by Rembrandt, Rousseau, Pollock, and Chagall, yet she equally explores a set of news photos from the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874217209
Publisher:	Utah State University Press
Publication date:	10/17/2008
Series:	Swenson Poetry Award , #12
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	100
File size:	389 KB

About the Author

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2007, Idris Anderson has published poems in the Hudson Review, The Nation, The Ontario Revew, The Paris Review, Paris/Atlantic, South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Southern Review, and AYZZYVA.

Table of Contents

C O N T E N T S Acknowledgments Foreword Prologue: Comet I The French Bed 2 Recollection of Tranquility 3 Bridges of Giverny 4 Kehaya House 5 Pumpkin Farm, Half Moon Bay 7 Fugitive Effects 8 The Temple of Poseidon 9 Marsyas 11 Fathers 14 II FRONT PAGE New York Times 15 III D¿rer's Jerome 38 Roses on the Ceiling 39 Marble Boy 41 Greek Stones 42 Maiano 43 Christine, Daughter of Immigrants 44 The Moth 45 The Bream 46 Kayaks 47 IV PRETTY ROOMS 1. The Mower 49 2. Trio 49 3. Anniversary 50 4. Rousseau 50 5. At Night on the Terrace, Fiesole 51 6. Fourth of July 52 7. That Hat 52 8. The Turtle 53 9. Caravaggio 53 10. Conscience 54 11. Fig 54 V Lilies 55 On Throwing a Fish in the Well 56 Two at the Dock 57 Goat Song 58 The Red Coat 60 Above the Town 61 The Marsh 63 The Glider 65 No. 1 67 On a Bus to the Airport, Colorado 68 Epilogue: Face 70 Notes 72 About the Author 74 The May Swenson Poetry Award 75

Editorial Reviews

It's rare, especially now, to encounter poems so well-made, so rich in traditional learning and painterly exactitude, that speak to the heart as strongly as to the mind. This is a memorable debut.      Alan Williamson


The grave, measured voice of Idris Anderson won me instantly.      Harold Bloom, from the foreword

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