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"All ekphrasis may have this effect on the writer, the reader: To look hard enough is to be seen, which is both comforting and startling."

How Poets Went From Describing Art to Personally Admiring It The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual. Our columnist asks what it means.

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