Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint

Reading Cy Twombly is the first book to focus specifically on the artist’s use of poetry. Twombly’s library formed an extension of his studio and he sometimes painted with a book open in front of him. Drawing on original research in an archive that includes his paint-stained and annotated books, Mary Jacobus’s account–richly illustrated with more than 125 color and black-and-white images–unlocks an important aspect of Twombly’s practice.