Ensnaring the moment : on the intersection of poetry and photography / edited by Leah Ollman.
2025
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Title
Ensnaring the moment : on the intersection of poetry and photography / edited by Leah Ollman.
ISBN
9798989960224
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Saint Lucy Books, [2025]
Copyright
©2025
Language
English
Description
281 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Exhibited
2024-2025 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1527696236
Summary
"Ensnaring the Moment: On the intersection of poetry and photography is an anthology of poems from the late 19th-century to the present that reckon with the staggering impact of photographs on our individual and collective consciousness. This first-of-its-kind collection features the work of over 100 poets, including Elizabeth Bishop, Victoria Chang, Lucille Clifton, Nikky Finney, Jack Gilbert, Terrance Hayes, Maxine Kumin, Philip Levine, Ada Limón, W. S. Merwin, Sharon Olds, Adrienne Rich, Wisława Szymborska, James Tate and Ocean Vuong. These poems expand the tradition of ekphrastic poetry, while also serving as unfettered acts of criticism and lyric forays into photo theory. Addressing family pictures, news images, found photographs and more, each poem offers a verbal portal to the visual, where the visual itself is a portal to the past, to an unrecognized facet of the familiar, to the other and to the self." -- Publisher's website.
Formatted Contents Note
The poems in this collection / Leah Ollman
When Nan Goldin danced in low-life go-go bars in Paterson, N.J. / Rosa Alcalá
At the beach / Elizabeth Alexander
Lasting / Rae Armantrout
Portrait as self-portrait / Mary Jo Bang
Daguerrotypes / Rick Barot
Photograph: Jews probably arriving to the Lodz ghetto circa 1941-1942 / Ellen Bass
The grain / Chad Bennett
Framed photograph / Dennis J. Bernstein
Candidate / Frank Bidart
Muybridge / Linda Bierds
In the waiting room / Elizabeth Bishop
Phot of a man on Sunset Drive: 1914, 2008 / Richard Blanco
Graduation party photograph / Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno
Photograph of religious sacrifice, Tarahumara, Mexico, 1984 / Shane Book
Photo of us on the cottage front porch / Fleda Brown
Prints / Joseph Bruchac
On an old photograph of my son / Raymond Carver
The boss's Christmas card / Victoria Chang
We are all dying, slowly / Su Cho
photograph / Lucille Clifton
On seeing and being seen / Ama Codjoe
Lines on seeing the first color photograph of planet Mars / Henri Cole
Fragment / Cynthia Cruz
War photograph / Kate Daniels
Roland Barthes / Carol Ann Davis
Ode to the clothesline / Kwame Dawes
Boy. Child without legs. Getting off a chair. / Oliver de la Paz
To the people of 2060 / Carl Dennis
Cranes, mafiosos, and a Polaroid camera / Natalie Diaz
The little building in which I find the ancient cloister store-room of St. Severin, which is going to disappear / Camille T. Dungy
Whiteness / Stephen Dunn
36 unexposed frames / Nicole Terez Dutton
Secure the shadow / Claudia Emerson
Portrait of my father as a young man / B. H. Fairchild
Instruction, final: to Brown poets from Black girl with silver Leica / Nikky Finney
You occurred to me / Katie Ford
On first seeing a U.S. Forest Service aerial photo of where I live / James Galvin
Collodion / Forrest Gander
Beyond pleasure / Jack Gilbert
Photographs of the interiors of dictators' houses / Albert Goldbarth
Song of a camera / Thom Gunn
The photograph / Thomas Hardy
Self-portrait as the mind of a camera / Terrance Hayes
The photo does not exhaust itself / Mary Hickman
Walker Evans interior, 1936 / Jane Hirshfield
That light one finds in baby pictures / Jay Hopler
Selfie / Frieda Hughes
Smile / David Jauss
Self-portrait in cyanotype / Taylor Johnson
To the young man on the bridge / Jessica Jopp
Face down / Mary Karr
The photograph album in the junk shop / Laura Kasischke
September twelfth, 2001 / X. J. Kennedy
Single-lined photos / John Kinsella
Manifesto of the lyric selfie / Becca Klaver
Elegy in anger / Steven Kleinman
Picture of little letters / John Koethe
The knot / Maxine Kumin
Lines on a young lady's photograph album / Philip Larkin
Family reunion / Dorianne Laux
Leaves / Ursula K. LeGuin
Biafra / Denise Levertov
On a photograph of Simon Karaday / Philip Levine
Photograph: migrant worker, Parlier, California, 1967 / Larry Levis
My father's mustache / Ada Limón
Things that lose by being photographed / Rebecca Lindenberg
Epilogue / Robert Lowell
Family photo around Xmas tree / Thomas Lux
Resurrection / Sally Wen Mao
Photographer / Jane Mayhall
The beginning of colour / Thomas McCarthy
Many kinds make the crowd / Rose McLarney
On the photograph of a corps commander / Herman Melville
Photographer / W. S. Merwin
A lie / Sinéad Morrissey
I bought a camera / Cynthia Nadelman
In winter / Laura Newbern
Camera obscura / Camille Norton
Tiny siren / Sharon Olds
From a photograph / George Oppen
Snapshot / Linda Parsons
Color photos of the atrocities / Kenneth Pitchford
Bogliasco / Robert Polito
Formal family portraits / Deborah Pope
Unmarked color slide (March 1967) / James Reiss
Edward Curtis's "At the Old Well of Acoma" / Paisley Rekdal
For an album / Adrienne Rich
From the dark chamber: five daguerrotypes / Brad Richard
Portrait of my father as a young man / Rainer Maria Rilke
Disappearance / Martha Ronk
The stranger in old photos / Philip Schultz
First of December / Natalie Shapero
Photo of a girl on a beach / Carmen Giménez Smith
Mementos, 1 / W. D. Snodgrass
Untouched photograph of passenger / Cathy Song
An album of the mentally ill / John Spaulding
Deleting the picture / Arundhathi Subramaniam
Three moves, clockwise / Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Photograph from September 11 / Wisława Szymborska
The camel / James Tate
Selfie with Pomona: The Goddess of Abundance / Alexandra Teague
Inside / Amy Uyematsu
Stole (wedding photograph, 1911) / Nance Van Winckel
The punctum / Ocean Vuong
The photos / Diane Wakoski
The angle the frame, the angel the posed subjects / Anne Waldman
Cotillion photo / Rosanna Warren
Polaroid ode / Cori A. Winrock
Lines on seeing a photograph for the first time in thirty years / Charles Wright
Lunar New Year, 1988 / Jenny Xie
The room I work in / Adam Zagajewski
These kids running through pictures / Jane Zwart.
When Nan Goldin danced in low-life go-go bars in Paterson, N.J. / Rosa Alcalá
At the beach / Elizabeth Alexander
Lasting / Rae Armantrout
Portrait as self-portrait / Mary Jo Bang
Daguerrotypes / Rick Barot
Photograph: Jews probably arriving to the Lodz ghetto circa 1941-1942 / Ellen Bass
The grain / Chad Bennett
Framed photograph / Dennis J. Bernstein
Candidate / Frank Bidart
Muybridge / Linda Bierds
In the waiting room / Elizabeth Bishop
Phot of a man on Sunset Drive: 1914, 2008 / Richard Blanco
Graduation party photograph / Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno
Photograph of religious sacrifice, Tarahumara, Mexico, 1984 / Shane Book
Photo of us on the cottage front porch / Fleda Brown
Prints / Joseph Bruchac
On an old photograph of my son / Raymond Carver
The boss's Christmas card / Victoria Chang
We are all dying, slowly / Su Cho
photograph / Lucille Clifton
On seeing and being seen / Ama Codjoe
Lines on seeing the first color photograph of planet Mars / Henri Cole
Fragment / Cynthia Cruz
War photograph / Kate Daniels
Roland Barthes / Carol Ann Davis
Ode to the clothesline / Kwame Dawes
Boy. Child without legs. Getting off a chair. / Oliver de la Paz
To the people of 2060 / Carl Dennis
Cranes, mafiosos, and a Polaroid camera / Natalie Diaz
The little building in which I find the ancient cloister store-room of St. Severin, which is going to disappear / Camille T. Dungy
Whiteness / Stephen Dunn
36 unexposed frames / Nicole Terez Dutton
Secure the shadow / Claudia Emerson
Portrait of my father as a young man / B. H. Fairchild
Instruction, final: to Brown poets from Black girl with silver Leica / Nikky Finney
You occurred to me / Katie Ford
On first seeing a U.S. Forest Service aerial photo of where I live / James Galvin
Collodion / Forrest Gander
Beyond pleasure / Jack Gilbert
Photographs of the interiors of dictators' houses / Albert Goldbarth
Song of a camera / Thom Gunn
The photograph / Thomas Hardy
Self-portrait as the mind of a camera / Terrance Hayes
The photo does not exhaust itself / Mary Hickman
Walker Evans interior, 1936 / Jane Hirshfield
That light one finds in baby pictures / Jay Hopler
Selfie / Frieda Hughes
Smile / David Jauss
Self-portrait in cyanotype / Taylor Johnson
To the young man on the bridge / Jessica Jopp
Face down / Mary Karr
The photograph album in the junk shop / Laura Kasischke
September twelfth, 2001 / X. J. Kennedy
Single-lined photos / John Kinsella
Manifesto of the lyric selfie / Becca Klaver
Elegy in anger / Steven Kleinman
Picture of little letters / John Koethe
The knot / Maxine Kumin
Lines on a young lady's photograph album / Philip Larkin
Family reunion / Dorianne Laux
Leaves / Ursula K. LeGuin
Biafra / Denise Levertov
On a photograph of Simon Karaday / Philip Levine
Photograph: migrant worker, Parlier, California, 1967 / Larry Levis
My father's mustache / Ada Limón
Things that lose by being photographed / Rebecca Lindenberg
Epilogue / Robert Lowell
Family photo around Xmas tree / Thomas Lux
Resurrection / Sally Wen Mao
Photographer / Jane Mayhall
The beginning of colour / Thomas McCarthy
Many kinds make the crowd / Rose McLarney
On the photograph of a corps commander / Herman Melville
Photographer / W. S. Merwin
A lie / Sinéad Morrissey
I bought a camera / Cynthia Nadelman
In winter / Laura Newbern
Camera obscura / Camille Norton
Tiny siren / Sharon Olds
From a photograph / George Oppen
Snapshot / Linda Parsons
Color photos of the atrocities / Kenneth Pitchford
Bogliasco / Robert Polito
Formal family portraits / Deborah Pope
Unmarked color slide (March 1967) / James Reiss
Edward Curtis's "At the Old Well of Acoma" / Paisley Rekdal
For an album / Adrienne Rich
From the dark chamber: five daguerrotypes / Brad Richard
Portrait of my father as a young man / Rainer Maria Rilke
Disappearance / Martha Ronk
The stranger in old photos / Philip Schultz
First of December / Natalie Shapero
Photo of a girl on a beach / Carmen Giménez Smith
Mementos, 1 / W. D. Snodgrass
Untouched photograph of passenger / Cathy Song
An album of the mentally ill / John Spaulding
Deleting the picture / Arundhathi Subramaniam
Three moves, clockwise / Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Photograph from September 11 / Wisława Szymborska
The camel / James Tate
Selfie with Pomona: The Goddess of Abundance / Alexandra Teague
Inside / Amy Uyematsu
Stole (wedding photograph, 1911) / Nance Van Winckel
The punctum / Ocean Vuong
The photos / Diane Wakoski
The angle the frame, the angel the posed subjects / Anne Waldman
Cotillion photo / Rosanna Warren
Polaroid ode / Cori A. Winrock
Lines on seeing a photograph for the first time in thirty years / Charles Wright
Lunar New Year, 1988 / Jenny Xie
The room I work in / Adam Zagajewski
These kids running through pictures / Jane Zwart.
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