false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172211592m/150199.jpg 150199 1 The poems in Cole Swensen's <I>Try</I>, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, explore the intersection of writing with the visual arts, particularly late medieval and early Renaissance paintings. They also explore writing as a visual vehicle, both as a pattern across a field and as a catalyst for imagery. <P>Looking at the paintings themselves involves examining the way that they make meaning and, in contrast, the way that words make meaning of them and themselves--what happens when you have a representation of a representation? All the poems in this collection weave in and out of proximity to visual work, sometimes from the distance of a gallery viewer, sometimes as a character in the painting itself. 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