Example Sentences

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“Sovereign Silence, or the City” is a haunting ekphrastic poem based on Vincent Valdez’s ominous painting “The City I.”

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022

His verse about paintings, known as ekphrastic poetry, redefined the genre.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021

The other, a series of ekphrastic responses to photos of fractured skulls dug up under a Colorado asylum, presses Rekdal’s descriptive powers to pure insight. 

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2016

And isn’t it really true of all ekphrastic literature, fiction and poetry, that even when it claims to be describing or praising a work of visual art it is in fact asserting its own superiority?

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016

But, in between much lucid exposition and some ekphrastic gymnastics to die for, there is a disappointingly vanilla and platitudinous avatar of Sprackland abroad on that marvellous shore.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2012