<p>Carl Van Vechten, one of the most distinctive photographic portraitists of the 20th century captured the visages of the famous and the talented. This catalogue, issued to celebrate the 2003 exhibition, focuses on his photographs of extraordinary women in the arts. Over 80 women are pictured each accompanied by an original essay. From Mary Martin to Carson McCullers, from Billie Holiday to Pearl Bailey, many of the greatest American artists are shown in the prime of their careers.</p>

Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women

Arts & Photography

Nancy Kuhl

Individual Artists

Beinecke Rare Book Library

Poetry. In her first full-length collection of poems, THE WIFE OF THE LEFT HAND, the poet Nancy Kuhl explores the lyric possibilities found within the sometimes narrow space of the domestic interior, caught between the quotidian and the uncanny. In language that is by turns sensual and spare, elegant and oneiric, the images and music of this collection reveal and recast the daily ambiguities of living with others, "the fragile arrangement all blue / at the seams," and the uncertain line between the hidden and the apparent, like a "house / with its unswerving spine exposed." Nancy Kuhl's chapbook, In the Arbor, was winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Kent State University Press. She is co-editor of Phylum Press, an independent publisher of innovative poetry.

The Wife of The Left Hand

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Shearsman Books

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