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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 Marie Mutsuki Mockett
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By Jane Kenyon "Jane Kenyon is our Akhmatova. She will be read and remembered here as Akhmatova is read and remembered over there. For this we give no thanks because the gift is beyond thanks. But how deeply we are indebted!" —Hayden Carruth |
By Charles Baxter The reissue of a classic book on writing, now with two new essays and a new preface “[The book] is a pleasure to read, and it performs an important function—by mucking around in the problems that plague contemporary fiction, Burning Down the House may spur both readers and writers first to a recognition of guilty complicity and then to constructive thought.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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By Gerald Early "Scholar and writer Gerald Early has compiled an anthology of personal essays from a wide-ranging group of fiction writers, poets and academics about their own encounters with sports. The result is a rich collection on topics as far-flung as rodeo riding, playing tennis in a tornado and pool hustling." —Chicago Tribune |
"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."