At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets

“At its best, poetry about art, or ekphrasis if you like, makes visual recognition audible. This portrait of the largest museum in the world, by a motley and reaching group of living poets, goes a step further, capturing not just the hidden comedy of the sculptor Pierre Puget’s ancien régime “Hercules at Rest”…or the sadness in Jean-Antoine Watteau’s “Embarkation to Cythera”…but also all the happenstance, ritual, baggage and reverence that comes with tracking down artworks in an actual building.” — The New York Times Best Art Books of 2024“Such a diversity of voices and styles, translated from the French, Dutch, German, Chinese, and more, surprises and entices in turn. And it’s this air of unpredictability which, rather than scattering the mind, goes a long way toward upping the anthology’s readability.” —Eric Bies, Full Stop

Antoine Caro has headed the French publishing house Éditions Seghers since 2021.

Edwin Frank was born in Boulder, Colorado, and educated at Harvard College and Columbia University. He is the editorial director of the NYRB Classics series and the author of Snake Train - Poems 1984-2013 and Stranger Than Fiction - Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel.

Donatien Grau serves as Head of Contemporary Programmes at the Louvre Museum.

Laurence des Cars has been the director of the Louvre Museum since 2021.

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