Transforming vision : writers on art / selected and introduced by Edward Hirsch.

Introduction / Edward Hirsch
Excerpt from "On Various Minor Painters" / Willa Cather
Killing Time / Stuart Dybek
Excerpt from Humboldt's Gift / Saul Bellow. Claude Monet: Sandvika, Norway
Monet's "Waterlilies" / Robert Hayden. Claude Monet: Water Lilies
Seurat's Sunday Afternoon Along the Seine / Delmore Schwartz. Georges Seurat: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
1884
The Little Boudin Beach Scene / William Maxwell. Eugene Boudin: Approaching Storm
Henri Fantin-Latour Un Coin de Table (1873) / Richard Howard. Henri Fantin-Latour: Still Life: Corner of a Table
Degas and Transcendence / Richard Wilbur. Edgar Degas: Portrait after a Costume Ball and Ballet at the Paris Opera
Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge / Jon Stallworthy. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop / Adam Zagajewski. Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop
Pape Moe (Mysterious Water) / Susan Mitchell. Paul Gauguin: Pape Moe (Mysterious Water)
Mary Cassatt's Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarter / Cynthia Macdonald. Mary Cassatt: Woman Bathing
Woman Before an Aquarium / Patricia Hampl. Henri Matisse: Woman Before an Aquarium
Excerpt from Joan Miro: Life and Work / Jacques Dupin. Joan Miro: Portrait of a Woman (Juanita Obrador)
Two Ladies at the Automat (New York City) / Francine Prose. Diane Arbus: Two Ladies at the Automat (New York City)
The Walking Man of Rodin / Carl Sandburg. Auguste Rodin: The Walking Man.

Excerpt from The Song of the Lark / Willa Cather. Jules Breton: The Song of the Lark
The Song of the Lark / Amy Clampitt. Jules Breton: The Song of the Lark
Excerpt from The Geography of the Imagination / Guy Davenport. Grant Wood: American Gothic
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942 / Joyce Carol Oates. Edward Hopper: Nighthawks
Listening / John Edgar Wideman. William Sidney Mount: Walking the Line
Excerpt from The Man with the Blue Guitar / Wallace Stevens. Pablo Picasso: The Old Guitarist
There Came a Soul / Rita Dove. Ivan Albright: Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida
After a Painting by Jasper Johns / John Yau. Jasper Johns: Corpse and Mirror II
Ivan Albright: Self-Portraits, 1981-83 / Reginald Gibbons. Ivan Albright: Self-Portraits
The Eiffel Tower / Blaise Cendrars. Robert Delaunay: Champs de Mars: The Red Tower
Charles Sheeler's The Artist Looks at Nature (1943) / John Hollander. Charles Sheeler: The Artist Looks at Nature
The Jew and the Rooster Are One / Gerald Stern. Chaim Soutine: Dead Fowl
Explosion at San Giovanni in Laterano, Summer 1993: Notes on Francis Bacon's Figure with Meat / Susan Stewart. Francis Bacon: Figure with Meat
Looking at the Unbearable / Susan Sontag. Francisco Goya: The Disasters of War
Interrogation II: After the Painting by Leon Golub / C. K. Williams. Leon Golub: Interrogation II
The Sea, That Has No Ending / Stanley Kunitz. Philip Guston: Green Sea.

The Work of the World / Charles Johnson. Peter Blume: The Rock
The Philosopher's Conquest / Mark Strand. Giorgio de Chirico: The Philosopher's Conquest
A Glass of Sea Water or a Pinch of Salt / Philip Levine. Lyonel Feininger: Carnival in Arcueil
Wayne Thiebaud's Steep Street: 1989 / Shelby Hearon. Wayne Thiebaud: Steep Street
Brancusi's Golden Bird / Mina Loy. Constantin Brancusi: Golden Bird
Thomas Eakins, Study for William Rush / Garry Wills. Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River. Thomas Eakins: Study for William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River
Summer Storm / Charles Wright. Piet Mondrian: Composition
Gray Red
Claes Oldenburg's Clothespin (1975) / John Updike. Claes Oldenburg: Clothespin
The Father's House / Li-Young Lee. Li-Lin Lee: Corban Ephphatha I
Joseph Cornell's Hotel du Nord / Charles Simic. Joseph Cornell: Untitled (Hotel du Nord)
The Earliest Angels / Miroslav Holub. Paul Klee: Strange Glance
The Field / Jorie Graham. Anselm Kiefer: The Order of the Angels
Descent of Angels / Charles Baxter. John La Farge: Snow Field, Morning, Roxbury
Wormwood: The Penitents / Ellen Bryant Voight. Georgia O'Keeffe: Black Cross, New Mexico.