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Article: A Prairie Schooner portfolio.(Ekphrastic Poems)
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- December 22, 2005
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Introduction
Prairie Schooner is pleased to present this portfolio of ekphrastic poems, which explores the dynamic interplay between poetry and visual art. Ekphrasis, the Greek word for description, dates back to ancient rhetorical practices and has continued to be variously defined by twentieth-century writers from Gertrude Stein, the "literary cubist" who first published her prose poem portraits "Matisse" and "Picasso" in Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work, to Frank O'Hara, poet and curator for The Museum of Modern Art, whose love poem "Sharing a Coke with You" ambitiously invokes paintings by Marcel Duchamp and Marino Marini, as well as two "schools" of art, Futurism and ...