Joseph Nehru Stanton

Joseph Stanton’s poems perform for us several sequences of works of art, displaying paintings, movies, noh plays, and a variety of tales. Each piece is a genuine discovery, redreaming the elements of art that have surprised him and enlarged his understandings. Stanton’s poems sing for us the essenti...

Joseph Stanton is a poet of the visual. He willingly and often joyously assumes the ekphrastic stance, his poems moving seamlessly from an interpretation of Paul Gauguin's powerful Vision After the Sermon, in which Jacob grapples with an angel, to a series of poems exploring the alienated world of t...

The children's picture book is an important form of literary-visual art. In this volume, Joseph Stanton disposes of some of the assumptions that have tended to obscure this genre's achievements. While focusing on those books that are distinguished by some degree of originality in both word and image...

When Stan The Man Musial retired after 22 years with the Cardinals (disrupted only by a year of service with the U.S. Navy during World War II), he held 17 Major League records, 29 National League records, and 9 All Star game records. His unwavering consistency with the bat still has no peer: he hit...

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