The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
by Kay Ryan
Question(1/31/2012)
I don't understand what's the meaning about"the great Dutch still-lifes catch,the brush as much in love with talc as polish." who is Dutch? is he a painter?
[Editor's note: "Dutch" refers to a country in Europe, The Netherlands. Still-life painting as an independent genre or …more specialty first flourished in the Netherlands during the early 1600s, and the Dutch painting strongly influenced the rest of Europe for about 150 years,](less)
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