The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art Misty Black and culture spill from the

and culture spill from the pages in this luxuriously illustrated treasure trove of travel knowledge

In 1856 the newly founded National Portrait Gallery was presented with a compelling painting of William Shakespeare

a wide-eyed Texas girl

but you don't need to learn "everything" to get started

The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art Misty Black and culture spill from theThis magnificent book is a gallery of words and images that celebrates the sister arts of poetry and painting. John Hollander, the eminent poet and critic, has selected more than fifty works of artpaintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures from antiquity to the presentand matched them to poems that address the same images in their verses. The result is an illuminating and ingeniously organized chronicle of words and images in