Tom Phillips drawing from Inferno
©Tom Phillips 1985
Denise Levertov
photo by Nancy Carrick Holbert
Thom Gunn
photo by Lois Shelton
Fall 2008 Library Exhibitions
In the Jeremy Ingalls Gallery of the Poetry Center
Collaborations: Poets and Artists - July 7 through September 2
A selection of some of the rarest and most colorful books from the Poetry Center’s Rare Book Room. The exhibition includes a variety of collaborations, including Tom Phillips’ illustrations for Dante’s Inferno, Robert Alan Parker’s illustrations for Baudelaire’s poems and d. a. levy’s collage cover for a collection of poems by D. R. Wagner.
Denise Levertov, Poet and Social Activist (1923-1997) - September 3 through November 11
Denise Levertov was born in England and became an American Citizen in 1955. Most of her books of poetry were published in the United States where she protested the atom bomb and the Vietnam War. Much of her poetry is delicate and serious as well as powerfully affecting in its clarity and compassion.
Thom Gunn, Anglo-American Poet (1929-2004) - November 12 through January 5
English-born Thom Gunn immigrated to the United States in 1954 where he taught at the University of California at Berkeley for many years. His early poetry is formal and spare while his later poetry is more personal and yet expansive at the same time.
Past exhibitions
