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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Our Worldby Mary Oliver
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Intertwined in art and life: the prose of Mary Oliver and the photographs of Molly Malone Cook Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. Molly Malone Cook, who died in 2005, was Oliver's partner for many years, a pioneer gallery owner and photographer. This book joins Cook's pho¬tographs with Oliver's prose—a uniquely intimate in¬tertwining of their lives and art. There are famous faces here, among them Lorraine Hansberry, Walker Evans, Norman Mailer, and even, through a restaurant win¬dow in Venice, Jean Cocteau. Other artists and dozens of wonderful characters and scenes are also immor¬talized by Cook's unfailing eye for telling detail and perfect composition—two strangers playing chess, laundry billowing in a cityscape, a Pueblo Indian with his 1958 Cadillac. Mary Oliver writes of Cook's work, the people they knew, and the places they visited or lived. The poet's beautiful text captures not only the unique qualities of her partner's work, but the very texture of their shared world. Within the art world, Molly Malone Cook made her reputation as an early advocate of photography as an art form; she was a champion of the work of now-famous photographers, including Edward Steichen, Eugene Atget, Berenice Abbott, Minor White, Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, and W. Eugene Smith. Per¬haps as important, in Mary Oliver's moving words, Cook taught the beginner poet "to see, with searching attention, and compassion." Book News Annotation:Contemporary Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver offers
informational and inspired text alongside 50 b&w works by her late
partner, photographer Molly Malone Cook. Portraits of artists,
writers, friends, and strangers in Germany, New York, New Mexico, and
Mississippi are dotted with famous faces--Eleanor Roosevelt, Lorraine
Hansberry, Jean Cocteau--and excerpts from Cook's journals, along
with Oliver's own memories, give further dimension to the
photographer's subjects and intention. Oversize: 9.5x8".
Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:The prose of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Oliver and the photographs of Cook are joined together to reveal the uniquely intimate intertwining of the artists personal lives as well as their art. About the AuthorMary Oliver has written more than ten volumes of poetry and prose and is one of America's best-selling and most honored poets, a winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A longtime resident of Provincetown, Massachusetts, she is now on the faculty of Bennington College in Vermont. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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