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The Art Of Description: World Into Word (2010)

by Mark Doty(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1555975631 (ISBN13: 9781555975630)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Graywolf Press

review 1: This slim volume contains the words of great poets (Elizabeth Bishop, e.e. cummings, May Swenson and more), as well as beautifully crafted sentences. The chapter "Description's Alphabet" is genius. Two favorite quotes: "Description is an ART to the degree that it gives us not just the world but the inner life of the witness." "ECONOMY is a virtue, albeit an overrated one ... EXCESS, which is seldom understood to be a virtue, can certainly be a pleasure."
review 2: Fabulous insights into the connection between writing and visual arts, and how we perceive the world, how we translate those perceptions into written or visual work. Mostly, the first 64 pages of this slim book are really worthwhile, in terms of generating ideas, raising one's expectations and estimat... moreion of capturing things such as, perhaps, the "simultaneity of perception" on the page. After page 64, it shifts to an alphabet style of delivery, "Description's Alphabet." Something about that section feels more forced, less organic, though lovely. less

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