Romanticism

by Catherine Corman, Naomi Yang (Design)

Romanticism" is a collection of collage poems made from the memoirs, letters and diaries of Martha Graham, Anais Nin, Marguerite Duras, Billie Holiday and Diane Arbus. Photographs trace their paths through cafes, hotels, bars and museums of the cities in which their lives played out: Paris, London and New York. "Romanticism," wrote Anais Nin, "was an obsession with the far in place of the near... the unattainable in place of the attainable." "Catherine Corman has recast the words of these five bold women into vital, independent poems, and in so doing, she has given their voices new energy and a new, personal clarity. These verses, by turns wistful, severe, wry, generous, bitter, resolute, and compassionate, are, alongside Corman's luminous photographs, a pleasure to read." -Lydia Davis

112 pages, Paperback

Published November 16, 2015

About the author

Catherine Corman's book of photographs, Daylight Noir: Raymond Chandler's Imagined City, was exhibited at the 2009 Venice Biennale, and is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art Library. Her short film Les Non-Dupes screened at the 2012 Berlin Biennale. She is also the editor of Joseph Cornell's Dreams. Her work has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement and Vogue Italia, and on the websites of The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Economist. She was educated at Harvard and Oxford Universities.