Todays leading poets and writersfrom Anne Carson to Roxane Gayrespond to modern and contemporary masterpiecesIn this book 26 internationally renowned poets writers and essayists such as Anne Carson Richard Ford Roxane Gay Colm Tobn Eileen Myles Sjn Gunnhild yehaug Anne Waldman and Claudia Rankine engage in dialogue with artworks from the collection of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art by artists as different as Louise Bourgeois Francis Bacon Alberto Giacometti Alicja Kwade Andy Warhol Julie Mehretu Joseph Beuys Tacita Dean Yayoi Kusama and Francesca Woodman.The writers deploy their poetic gaze in texts that open our eyes to the works. By way of a wide range of literary genres such as poems essays memoir and notes the contributions to the book demonstrate how differently one can experience art.