Deep Skin: Elizabeth Bishop and Visual Art

by Peggy Samuels

Book Overview

Elizabeth Bishop, who constructed poems of crystalline visual accuracy, is often regarded as the most painterly of twentieth-century American poets. In Deep Skin, Peggy Samuels explores Bishop's attraction to painters who experimented with dynamic interactions between surface and depth. She tells the story of the development of Bishop's poetics in relation to her engagement with mid-century art, particularly the work of Paul Klee, Kurt Schwitters,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801448263
• ISBN13: 9780801448263
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher