Another draft of a bibliography of ekphrastic writing -- writing in response to visual art, i.e. painting, collage, photography, and visual art in response to writing, and that mcuh sought after breed, writing and visual art that can't live without the other (which I haven't found yet).
If you can point me to other books, websites, please do so. This project may never be comprehensive (Pandora's got a big box), but I want it representative enough to be informative. This will be the last blogged bibliography -- it's outgrowing this format.
BTW, I'm still looking for ekphrastic writing for SPORE 2.1 (SPORE 2.0 is also still open, too). SEND SEND SEND! 1111 E. Fifth St., Moscow, ID 83843.
Bibliography in Progress. Watch your step!
Alexander, Charles. Near or Random Acts. Singing Horse, 2004
From Charles: In its second part, several pages of work written while looking at Chagall's painting "I and the Village." I was projecting the work for students, who were writing, and I began writing, too. There is also, in that book, one part that extracts lines from what the students wrote in response to the painting.
Here's a link to a piece I made in response to work by visual artist Cynthia Miller, to whom I am married. The particular work was an outdoor public installation. Later my piece with an illustration by Cynthia was published in a "screen fold" series by Light & Dust. The web site explains more. Just the text of the piece appears in my book, Hopeful Buildings.
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/alexander/aviary.html
Andrews, Betsy
One is on Henry Moore's "Knife Edge Two Pieces" you can find here: http://www.burningpress.org/va/pote/potez07.html
Andrews, Betsy. “The Woman Bandit,” on David Smith's "Woman Bandit. She-Devil, Sardines Press. http://www.sidereality.com/volume3issue2/reviewsv3n2/reviewofshedevil.htm
Ashbery, John. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
Ashbery, John & Joe Brainard. The Vermont Notebook. 2001. 9 1/2" x 6 3/4"; Poetry by Ashbery with over 50 ink drawings by Brainard. "This is John Ashbery at his wacky best, from long lists that seem to make some sense, to short lists that are befuddling and beguiling, to made-up diary entries. Perhaps it's everyone's diary that Ashbery has written, and no one's. Joe Brainard's silhouetted Americana becomes the perfect complement. There's a wonderfully nutty innocence (insouciance) to this book that is found in Brainard's drawings and Ashbery's writings: 'his lips spell out the words: shale, cowturds, spread, udder, mumps.'" ‹ John Yau. ". . .touched with genius." ‹ Peter Schjeldahl. ISBN 1-887123-59-8. http://www.granarybooks.com/catalog.html
Auden, W. H. “Musee des Beaux Arts.”
From Michael Snider.
Bernstein, Charles and Susan Bee. Log Rhythms. New York. Granary Books.1998. 11" x 8 1/2"; In this book Susan Bee sets and illustrates a long serial poem by Charles Bernstein, offering a running visual dialogue with the poem's textual acrobatics. Together they explore the psychopathology of everyday life: at times dark, at times dizzyingly demented, swerving from the wildly comic to the searingly political and from the whimsical to the elegiac. Printed offset (black ink on white paper) by Brad Freeman. Cover designed by Philip Gallo and Susan Bee then laser-printed in color at the Hermetic Press; edition of 500; 24 pp. Wrappers. ISBN: 1-887123-25-3. http://www.granarybooks.com/catalog.html
Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei and Kiki Smith. Endocrinology. Kelsey Street Press, 1997. http://kelseyst.com/
From Bruna Mori
Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei and drawings by Richard Tuttle. Sphericity. Kelsey Street Press, 1993. http://kelseyst.com/
Carper, Thomas. “Paint, Her Portrait.”
From Michael Snider.
Creeley, Robert & Rand, Archie. Drawn & Quartered. Granary Books, 2001. http://www.granarybooks.com
Davis, Dick. “Rembrandt's Return of the Prodigal Son, On a Painting by Guardi, On an Etching by J. S. Cotman”
From Michael Snider
Dienstfrey, Patricia and drawings by Kate Delos. Small Salvations. Kelsey Street Press, 1987. http://kelseyst.com/
Dolin, Sharon. Serious Pink.
From Burt Kimmelman.
Review by Eileen Tabios: http://www.jacketmagazine.com/23/tabi-dolin.html
Guest, Barbara and drawings by Anne Dunn. Stripped Tales. Kelsey Street Press, 1995. http://kelseyst.com/
Guest, Barbara and drawings by June Felter. Musicality. Kelsey Street Press, 1988. http://kelseyst.com/
Hernandez, Jose in collaboration with Luis Bunuel, in the 10th issue of 3rd Bed.
Andrea Baker, Poetry Editor, 3rd Bed, http://www.3rdbed.com
Hunt, Erica and drawings by Alison Saar. Arcade. Kelsey Street Press, 1996. http://kelseyst.com/
Justice, Donald. “On a Picture by Burchfield, On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane.”
From Michael Snider
Kervinen, Jukka-Pekka & Young, Mark from “The Sketchbooks Of Hieronymous Bosch,” forthcoming in Eratio
Kimmelman, Burt, a collaboration with the painter Fred Caruso. The Pond at Cape May Point. Marsh Hawk Press, 2002.
Poems and paitings – watercolor wash over coarse paper, b & w – don’t waste a stroke. Together, these two dimensions, verbal and visual, intersect, creating place, space.
Kimmelman, Burt. Musaics. Spuyten Duyvil, 1992.
Mezey, Robert. “To a Likeness of a Captain in Cromwell's Army.”
From Michael Snider
Nemerov, Howard. “Breughel: The Triumph of Time”
From Michael Snider
Olsen, Lance. Hideous Beauties. Eraserhead Press, 2004. A collection of stories based on paintings, photographs, sketches, and/or collages by artists Joel-Peter Witkin, Paul Delvaux, Max Ernst and others.
Pai, Shin Yu. Equivalence. La Alameda, 2003.
There are two poems -- "Number 14" and "Feedback" -- which deal with the Abstract Expressionist school of painting, more specifically through the works of Jackson Pollock, and contemporary painter John Pomara. There are also poems in the collection that take Eastern brush painting as their topic.
Perelman, Bob & Shaw, Francie. Playing Bodies. Granary Books, 2004. http://www.granarybooks.com/
Perlman, John. Self Portrait. Elizabeth Press, 1978.
From John: Yes, [William Carlos Williams’] example is initiatory : everything / is a picture // to the employing eye / that feeds restlessly to / find peace.
Pound, Ezra. "To Whistler, American"
From Lucas Klein
Prunty, Randy. "Van Gogh Talks" http://www.atlantapoetsgroup.net/3rdness/van_gogh_talks.html
From Michelle Reeves
Rosenwasser, Rena and drawings by Kate Delos. Isle. Kelsey Street Press, 1992. http://kelseyst.com/
Rosenwasser, Rena and drawings by Kate Delos. Simulacra. Kelsey Street Press, 1986. http://kelseyst.com/
Rothenberg, Michael. The Paris Journals.
… including individual poems on Delacroix, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Monet (specifically "Les Nympheas"), Picasso, Bourdelle, Gustave Moreau. I also have one from an earlier book, Favorite Songs, about Dali. Best, Michael
Schnackenberg, Gjertrud: “The Self-Portrait of Ivan Generalic”
From Michael Snider
Stallings, A. E. “On Viewing an Exhibition of Paintings--The Treasures of Venice”
Tabios, Eileen. Behind the Blue Canvas
Tabios, Eileen. My Romance
Tabios, Eileen. Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole
Wald, Diane. Improvisations on Titles of Works by Jean Dubuffet, Mudlark online
http://www.unf.edu/mudlark/mudlark10/contents.html
From the author: The “chapbook” was written over two days about five years ago, but I wrote for hours each day taking breaks in between sessions. It was a funny time. My husband and I were more or less trapped in small cottage in Rhode Island during two insanely rainy/stormy days. There was so much water we’d have to wade out to the car and the inlet outside the cottage came up almost to its door. There were also some really large, really pissed-off swans in the yard----so, all in all, it seemed a great time to stay inside and write. I had a laptop and two huge Dubuffet books (I’d seen an exhibit in DC just before and was enchanted with his work) with me from the library, so, yes, I did look at the paintings too, although the consistently wild nature of the titles was what first inspired me. It was terrific fun to write.”
Waldrop, Rosmarie and Jennifer Macdonald. Peculiar Motions. Kelsey Street Press, 1990. http://kelseyst.com/
Wheeler, Susan. “The Debtor in the Convex Mirror,” a response to John Ashbery’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and a painting by Quentin Massys, c. 1514.
http://bostonreview.net/BR28.5/wheeler.html
Wilbur, Richard. “Wyeth's Milk Cans, Museum Piece.”
From Michael Snider.
Williams, William Carlos. “The Great Figure,” based on The Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth. Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems. Four Seas Company: Boston, 1921
Winter, Max. Poems based on the work of Ida Applebroog
http://www.artkrush.com/thearticles/019_woa_winteronapplebroog/index.asp
The above link to ArtKrush will lead you to others writings on artists, including works such as Gertrude Stein on Matisse. Thanks for the link, Max.
Wright, C.D. and photographs by Deborah Luster. Just Whistle. Kelsey Street Press. http://kelseyst.com/
Young, Mark. "Series Magritte," an on-going series of poems inspired by the great Belgian painter.
Zinnes, Harriet Drawings On The Wall. Marsh Hawk Press: New York, N.Y., 2002. Including the poems "Mark Rothko," "Drawing on the Wall, or Diminishment," and "Pictogram (Picasso)."