Sisällysluettelo:
“…Walt Whitman and early twentieth-century American art -- American landscape painting and national identity: the Stieglitz circle and Emerson -- The silent witness of Edward Hopper -- American art and national identity: the 1920s -- The beginnings of "The American wave" and the Depression -- Grant Wood revisited -- The relevancy of Curry's paintings of Black freedom -- Thomas Hart Benton and the left -- The Emersonian presence in abstract expressionism -- American art around 1960 and the loss of self -- Pearlstein's people -- Robert Morris's latest works: slouching toward Armageddon -- A ramble around early earth works -- Reflections on/of Richard Estes -- Ben Shahn's postwar Jewish paintings -- Barnett Newman's stripe paintings and Kabbalah: a Jewish take -- Postscript: another kind of canon…”
Sisällysluettelo:
“….; April Poem; Turkey Hunting; My Son, in Love for the First Time; Vernal; Theodicy; The World Can Be a Gentle Place; The Night after the Day the Clover Blooms; July Finds the Soul like a Ripe Berry; Puberty; Keeping Secrets; Persephone Dreams of Thomas Hart Benton; Upon Finding Something Worthy of Praise; Field Mouse; A German Farmer Thinks of Spring; Necessity; Far Afield; Consider; Note to My Wife, with Hopes She Won't Need to Read It for Some Time; Now When We Kiss; Barn Swallows…”