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Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012)February 1, 2012
—It is with profound sadness that we announce that brilliant poet and visual artist Dorothea Tanning, author of A Table of Content and Coming to That, passed away in her sleep last night. She was 101 years old. "Artist, Once" from Coming to That. Copyright © 2011 by Dorothea Tanning.
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By Don Paterson "If you are wondering whether great poems are still being written, you ought to read Don Paterson's The White Lie. He may be little known in this country today, but not for long I predict." —Charles Simic |
By Linda Gregg "Too Bright to See was one of the most important first books of poetry to have come out in the last twenty-five years. Alma, first published in its own volume two years after, has become its necessary companion. It's a fine thing to have these two books back in the world, the visible world, bound together, lucid and legible as they are." —Lucie Brock-Broido |
By Fanny Howe The Lyrics demonstrates why Fanny Howe is “one of the boldest lyric poets in the United States.” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) |
By Joanna Kilmartin and Anouar Benmalek "I was swept along by the beautifully constructed story of Anna and Nasreddine, whose love survives a half century of war and terror in post-colonial Algeria. Benmalek is a master of the poetics of separation." —Alice Kaplan |
By Sophie Cabot Black "Sophie Cabot Black's poems, in their measured grace, have a quiet intensity, animated by her passion for a clarity of understanding, in the art as in the life." —Stanley Kunitz |
"All of us at Graywolf Press note with sadness the death of Dorothea Tanning," said senior editor Jeffrey Shotts. "We are honored to have published her two poetry books, the first of which was published when she was 94 and the second of which was published just last fall when she turned 101. As she herself remarked, with her usual wry self-awareness, she was 'the oldest emerging poet.' The fact that she could have such an illustrious career as a visual artist and, so late in that career, then turn to poetry with such forceful craft and signature imagination is a triumph of her unparalleled vision and indomitable spirit. Working with her over two books has been one of the greatest delights of my career as an editor. Knowing her these last ten years will remain one of the signposts of my life. She is missed."