At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets

New poems from 100 of the world's brightest contemporary poets, all about a common subject: the Louvre--exploring the many pleasures, provocations, and surprises that the museum and its collection inspire.

Of the world's great museums, the Louvre is the most encompassing, a sumptuous collection that includes not only some of the most celebrated works of art of all time, but fascinating, perplexing, splendid, and beautiful objects of all kinds, all housed in a building, itself monumental, that was once the seat of the kings of France. In the grand corridors and multiplying backrooms of the Louvre, the history of the world and the history of art and the history of how we look and think about art and its place in our lives challenge and delight us at every corner. Few other public spaces are at once so haunted and so alive.

A unique collaboration between New York Review Books and the Louvre Museum, At the Louvre presents a hundred poems, newly commissioned exclusively for this volume, by a hundred of the world's most vibrant poets. They write about works from the museum's collection. They write about the museum and its history. They write what they see and feel, and together they take us on a tour of the museum and its galleries like no other, one that is an irresistible feast for the ear and mind and eye.

Some of the poets in At the Louvre: Simon Armitage; Barbara Chase-Riboud; Hélène Dorion; Jon Fosse; Fanny Howe; Kenneth Goldsmith; Lisette Lombé; Tedi López Mills; Precious Okoyomon; Charles Pennequin; Blandine Rinkel; Yomi Şode; Krisztina Tóth; Jan Wagner; Elizabeth Willis.

Author: Antoine Caro
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 11/26/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 6.60h x 4.20w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781681379012
ISBN10: 1681379015
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Places
- Art | Museum Studies

About the Author
Antoine Caro has headed the French publishing house ?ditions Seghers since 2021.

Edwin Frank was born in Boulder, Colorado, and educated at Harvard College and Columbia University. He is the editorial director of the NYRB Classics series and the author of Snake Train: Poems 1984-2013 and Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel.

Donatien Grau serves as Head of Contemporary Programmes at the Louvre Museum.

Laurence des Cars has been the director of the Louvre Museum since 2021.