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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 Sven Birkerts “Birkerts on reading fiction is like M.F.K. Fisher on eating or Norman Maclean on fly casting. He makes you want to go do it.” —Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker |
By Lawrence Venuti and Ernest Farrés
“‘Hopper and I form one single person,’ says the Catalan poet
Ernest Farrés of his poems on Edward Hopper’s paintings. Joining this company
of two, Lawrence Venuti carries Hopper home by making him stranger. The idiom
Venuti has invented is at once American and otherworldly, doubled, like the
poems he translates, like the paintings Farrés translated into poems. Not just
a brilliant sequence of poems, Edward
Hopper is a three-part invention.”
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By Saskia Hamilton Saskia Hamilton, author of As for Dream and editor of The Letters of Robert Lowell, explores “where the pull of reverie becomes palpable and eerily seductive” (Poetry).
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By Tracy K. Smith "This is a smart, daring first book of poems. Driven by Smith's raging desire of imagination, many of these often quiet poems describe something that's not there with deft grammar reaching toward possibility." —Listed as one of eight best poetry books in Black Issues Book Review |
By Elizabeth Alexander "The Black Interior, a critical look at some of black America's most influential cultural voices, may be another such masterpiece....Best known for her poetry, it may be that poet's lyricism and eye for nuance that makes this new work so compelling." —SAVOY |
"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."