New poems from 100 of the world’s brightest contemporary poets, all about a common subject- the Louvre-exploring the many pleasures, provocations, and surprises that the museum and its collection inspire. New poems from 100 of the world’s brightest contemporary poets, all about a common subject- the Louvre-exploring the many pleasures, provocations, and surprises that the museum and its collection inspire. Of the world’s great museums, the Louvre is the most encompassing, a sumptuous collection that includes not only some of the most celebrated works of art of all time, but fascinating, perplexing, splendid, and beautiful objects of all kinds, all housed in a building, itself monumental, that was once the seat of the kings of France. In the grand corridors and multiplying backrooms of the Louvre, the history of the world and the history of art and the history of how we look and think about art and its place in our lives challenge and delight us at every corner. Few other public spaces are at once so haunted and so alive. A unique collaboration between New York Review Books and the Louvre Museum, At the Louvre presents a hundred poems, newly commissioned exclusively for this volume, by a hundred of the world’s most vibrant poets.
