ABOUT THIS BOOK

Volume 12 in the Swenson Poetry Award Series, 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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2007, Idris Anderson has published poems in the Hudson Review, The Nation, The Ontario Revew, The Paris Review, Paris/Atlantic, South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Southern Review, and AYZZYVA.

REVIEWS

It's rare, especially now, to encounter poems so well-made, so rich in traditional learning and painterly exactitude, that speak to the heart as strongly as to the mind. This is a memorable debut. Alan Williamson

The grave, measured voice of Idris Anderson won me instantly. Harold Bloom, from the foreword

TABLE OF CONTENTS

C O N T E N T S
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Prologue: Comet 
 I
The French Bed 2
Recollection of Tranquility 3 
Bridges of Giverny 4
Kehaya House 5 
Pumpkin Farm, Half Moon Bay 7
Fugitive Effects 8
The Temple of Poseidon 9
Marsyas 11 
Fathers 14
II
FRONT PAGE New York Times 15
III
D¿rer's Jerome 38
Roses on the Ceiling 39
Marble Boy 41 
Greek Stones 42
Maiano 43 
Christine, Daughter of Immigrants 44
The Moth 45
The Bream 46
Kayaks 47
IV
PRETTY ROOMS
1. The Mower 49
2. Trio 49
3. Anniversary 50
4. Rousseau 50
5. At Night on the Terrace, Fiesole 51
6. Fourth of July 52
7. That Hat 52
8. The Turtle 53
9. Caravaggio 53
10. Conscience 54
11. Fig 54
V
Lilies 55
On Throwing a Fish in the Well 56 
Two at the Dock 57
Goat Song 58
The Red Coat 60 
Above the Town 61
The Marsh 63
The Glider 65
No. 1 67
On a Bus to the Airport, Colorado 68
Epilogue: Face 70
Notes 72
About the Author 74
The May Swenson Poetry Award 75

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