Academy of American Poets
View Cart | Log In 
Subscribe | More Info 
Find a Poet or Poem
Advanced Search >
FURTHER READING
Poems by Dorothea Tanning
No Palms
Related Prose
Artist-turned-Poet: Dorothea Tanning's Imaginative Botany
Wedding Poems
store
Audio Archive
Notable Books
Academy Exclusives
Video Collection
Priced Under $20
Gift Ideas
New & Bestselling

Adopt a Poet | Add to Notebook | E-mail to Friend | Print
Another Language of Flowers  
by Dorothea Tanning, John Ashbery, Debora Greger, Anthony Hecht, Richard Howard, J. D. McClatchy, James Merrill, W. S. Merwin, Adrienne Rich, Brenda Shaughnessy, Rosanna Warren and Stephen Yenser

Another Language of Flowers
Price: $15.00
Order Now

Paintings by Dorothea Tanning accompanied by poetry from twelve highly esteemed poets: James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, Harry Mathews, Anthony Hecht, Debora Greger, Richard Howard, Rosanna Warren, John Ashbery, J. D. McClatchy, W.S. Merwin, Brenda Shaughnessy, and Stephen Yenser. The book is a hardcover first-edition.

From the book jacket: "Imagine walking through a garden full of never-before-seen flowers. Then open this book and you will find twelve of them waiting to charm you, becken to you, and whisper their messages like perfume in the air. Dorothea Tanning has painted these twelve imaginary blooms on twelve canvases--one for each month, or for each hour of the day or night. To speak for them here, twelve contemporary poets have chosen a flower and given it its voice, creating, in these pages, a dazzling collaboration that has resulted in a new "language of flowers." The twelve paintings, reproduced in color, are accompanied by their preliminary sketches. They show us the artist's delight in coaxing image from idea."

Hardcover. 1998.




Related Items

Love Poems

A wonderful, hardcover collection of some of the finest love poems ever written.

$12.50 | Order Now
Limited Edition Broadside: "On a Line From Valery"
By Carolyn Kizer

Autographed
Designed and printed in an exclusive edition of five-hundred copies.

$45.00 | Order Now



Share Digg StumbleUpon Facebook E-mail to Friend
Larger TypeLarger Type | Home | Help | Contact Us | Privacy Policy Copyright © 1997 - 2010 by Academy of American Poets.