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.
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