Cy Twombly, Untitled, Mainomenos, Bacchus, 2004, acrylic, wax crayon on wooden panel, 98 1/2 × 74 3/4 inches (© Cy Twombly, courtesy of Gagosian Gallery)
Mary Jacobus blogs about the "inventive use of literary quotation and allusion throughout [CyTwombly's] long career and his relation to poetry as an inspiration for his art," the subject of her new book Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (Princeton University Press).
