The Poetry of Solitude: A Tribute to Edward Hopper. This item is unavailable.The Poetry of Solitude: A Tribute to Edward Hopper

This unprecedented volume unites for the first time the extraordinary paintings of twentieth-century artist Edward Hopper and the poems that his works inspired. The wide range of poets whose writings pay tribute to this great artist:

William Carpenter
Anne Babson Carter
Stephen Dunn
W.R. Elton
Edward Hirsch
John Hollander
Larry Levis
Robert Mezey
Lisel Mueller
Joyce Carol Oates
Toney Quagliano
Lawrence Raab
David Ray
Anthony Rudolf
Ira Sadoff
Grace Schulman
Sue Standing
John Updike
Samuel Yellen

Gail Levin has collected "Hopperania" for many years, including poems for this volume. The preeminent Hopper scholar, she has organized many exhibitions and is author of Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonne, Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, Hopper's Places, and many other books on twentieth-century American art. She is professor of art history at Baruch College and The Graduate School of the City University of New York, and lives in New York City.