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Joseph Stanton, author of this impressive collection of poems, is a masterful practitioner of art-inspired poetry. His commitment to the ekphrastic genre is evident in Lifelines: Poems for Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper, his eighth collection of poems. The chronological presentation of poems inspired by the works of Homer and Hopper serves to capture the trajectory of each artist's life and career and unlocks the secrets of many of their most...

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Prevailing Winds by Joseph Stanton is organized into three sorts of considerations of the world-showcasing some of the ways it is represented in art, makes appearances in nature, and tends, in the long run, towards disappearance. The first two sections of the book are continuations of Stanton's career-long fascinations with works of art and works of nature. The propulsion of the final section is the understanding that things can and will fall ...

The author of this impressive collection of poems, Joseph Stanton, is both a scholar and masterful practitioner of ekphrastic poetry. His commitment to the form is evident in Moving Pictures, his third collection of ekphrastic poems. In this volume, Stanton offers poems inspired by both European artists (Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, René Magritte, and others) and American artists (Winslow Homer, Thomas Cole, Edward Hopper, and others). In t...

The Important Books takes a look at some of the most significant and talked about authors, illustrators, and titles in the genre, including Maurice Sendak, Margaret Wise Brown, William Joyce, and Chris Van Allsburg. While focusing on those books that are distinguished by some degree of originality in both word and image, the author points out that the importance of picture books is not primarily pedagogical--they are not intended to serve as "...

The anthology necessarily covers an extremely varied landscape.... Compelling.

The anthology necessarily covers an extremely varied landscape.... Compelling.

Let the debates begin: This new series presents biographies of the 12 best hitters in the history of Major League Baseball, as selected by Greenwood's Editorial Board. Authored by some of today's top baseball writers, each thoroughly researched biography is concise yet sophisticated. Each volume: provides considerably more information than do young-adult biographies, is much more accessible to students than longer, mainstream tomes, discusses ...

In every video replay of the game till the end of time Todd Worrells foot slaps first And the Cards win the Series They lost the next day. --from "The Cardinals Win the 1985 World Series

Joseph Stanton is a poet of the visual. He willingly and often joyously assumes the ekphrastic stance, his poems moving seamlessly from an interpretation of Paul Gauguin's powerful Vision After the Sermon, in which Jacob grapples with an angel, to a series of poems exploring the alienated world of the twentieth century painter Edward Hopper with its emerging complexities and its journey into the dichotomies of the urban and the rural, the inte...