Mrs. Ramsay's Knee : Poems

Mrs Ramsay's Knee Offers Fresh And Elegant Poems By Idris Anderson, Many Of Them Ekphrastic Considerations Of Visual Works Of Art. Among Her Subjects Are Paintings By Rembrandt, Rousseau, Pollock, And Chagall, Yet She Equally Explores A Set Of News Photos From The 2006 War Between Israel And Hezbollah. Idris Anderson's Voice Is Both Compassionate And Calm, Yet She Brings A Vivid Imaginative World To Light, Illuminating Art And Life Alike. The Poet Has Little Interest In Ideology, But Great Concern For Lived Experience In All Its Richness. This Poetry Is As Full Of Feeling As Intelligence, Drawing The Reader Ever Closer To That Intimacy With The Human Condition That Brings True Understanding.--book Jacket. Comet -- Recollection Of Tranquility -- The French Bed -- Recollection Of Tranquility -- Bridges Of Giverny -- Kehaya House -- Pumpkin Farm, Half Moon Bay -- Fugitive Effects -- The Temple Of Poseidon -- Marsyas -- Fathers -- Front Page New York Times -- Roses On The Ceiling -- Durer's Jerome -- Roses On The Ceiling -- Marble Boy -- Greek Stones -- Maiano -- Christine, Daughter Of Immigrants -- The Moth -- The Bream -- Kayaks -- Pretty Rooms -- 1. The Mower -- 2. Trio -- 3. Anniversary -- 4. Rousseau -- 5. At Night On The Terrace, Fiesole -- 6. Fourth Of July -- 7. That Hat -- 8. The Turtle -- 9. Caravaggio -- 10. Conscience -- 11. Fig -- The Red Coat -- Lilies -- On Throwing A Fish In The Well -- Two At The Dock -- Goat Song -- The Red Coat -- Above The Town -- The Marsh -- The Glider -- No. 1 -- On A Bus To The Airport, Colorado -- Epilogue -- Face -- The May Swenson Poetry Award. By Idris Anderson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 99-100).