Ellen Levy: 2 books
Criminal Ingenuity
Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle Between the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
"Poetry was declining/ Painting advancing/ we were complaining/ it was '50," recalled poet Frank O'Hara in 1957. Criminal Ingenuity traces a series of linked moments in the history of this transfer of cultural power from the sphere of the word to that of the image. Ellen Levy explores the New York...
Amazons
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
When E.J. Levy arrived in northern Brazil on a fellowship from Yale at the age of 21, she was hoping to help save the Amazon rain forest; she didn’t realize she would soon have to save herself.
Amazons: A Love Story recounts an idealistic young woman’s coming of age against the backdrop...