Dorothea Tanning: A Table of Content: Poems (signed by artist)

Tanning, Dorothea

ISBN 10: 1555974023 / ISBN 13: 9781555974022

Published by Graywolf Press, 2004

About this Item

Softcover, 84 pages, very good condition; inscribed on first page, "For Virginia Zabriskie / My Favorite Keeper of Flowers / Kisses / Dorothea Tanning / June 3, 2004"; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Seller Inventory # DoTaGr175

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dorothea Tanning: A Table of Content: Poems (signed by artist)
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555974023
• ISBN 13: 9781555974022
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Dada Surrealism

About this title

Synopsis

The extraordinary first poetry collection by the renowned painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning

Finally, on second, in bras. Bras swarming everywhere,
giant pink moths at rest, their empty cups clamoring,

"Fill me."
-from "End of the Day on Second"

Dorothea Tanning is an exceptional visual artist, and now, in her nineties, she has become an exceptional poet. In A Table of Content, we are made to see more clearly the city landscape, the creative impulse, and the worlds of potential disaster and sensual erotics with a vision that survives taste, trend, and time.

About the Author

Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) lived an extraordinary life as an artist and writer. She published two books of poetry, A Table of Content and Coming to That; two memoirs, Birthday and Between Lives: An Artist and Her World; and a novel, Chasm. In 2012, she died at the age of 101 at her home in New York City.