New exhibit in Olin celebrates poems about Cornell
Triphammer Bridge, ca. 1890. Cyanotype photograph. Courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
A new exhibit in Olin Library’s lobby features six Cornell poets, from A.R. Ammons to Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, whose work has garnered substantial recognition among critics and peers. Each poem takes the physical location of the Cornell campus or its natural surroundings as a vantage point from which to examine both the outer and the inner life, mapping the metaphysical borderland that merges personal experience with human consciousness on a universal scale. more…