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FURTHER READING
Poems by John Balaban
Eddie
Passing Through Albuquerque
Essays by John Balaban
The Need to Return: On Avi Sharon
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Ekphrasis: Poetry Confronting Art
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All those Attempts in the Changing Room!
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Archaic Torso of Apollo
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Die Muhle Brennt--Richard
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In a Blue Wood
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Joseph Cornell, with Box
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Landscape With The Fall of Icarus
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M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit 1942
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Museum Guard
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
by John Keats
On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art
by Frank O'Hara
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
by John Keats
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Photograph of People Dancing in France
by Leslie Adrienne Miller
Seeing All the Vermeers
by Alfred Corn
Stealing The Scream
by Monica Youn
The Abolition of Reality [Georges Seurat]
by Adriano Spatola
The Family Photograph
by Vona Groarke
The Mad Potter
by John Hollander
The Man with the Hoe
by Edwin Markham
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers
by Andrew Marvell
The Shield of Achilles
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To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles
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War Photograph
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Why knowing is (& Matisse's Woman with a Hat)
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The Painting

 
by John Balaban

The stream runs clear to its stones;
the fish swim in sharp outline.
Girl, turn your face for me to draw.
Tomorrow, if we should drift apart,
I shall find you by this picture.






From Ca Dao Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry translated by John Balaban. Translation copyright © 2003 by John Balaban. Reprinted by permission of Copper Canyon Press. All right reserved.
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