A former poet laureate provides introductions and sidebar notes for more than eighty poems by greats including William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, and George Herbert, in an effort to spark pleasure in reading and writing poems.

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....

Presents twelve color reproductions of paintings by artists from Holbein to Picasso, with questions to stimulate discussion and background information on each artist and painting.

"This book will give many hours of pleasurable reading and browsing, but also unlock relationships, chronologies, and philosophies as they change through the stories and the writers of the Bible."--