Introduction : crude foyers
Wallace Stevens : local objects and distant wars
William Carlos Williams : contending in still life
Elizabeth Bishop's ethnographic eye
Joseph Cornell : soap bubbles and shooting galleries
Richard Wilbur : Xenia
Conclusion : domestic disturbance.
Planets on tables : poetry, still life, and the turning world by Bonnie Costello. ISBN 9780801446139. Published by Cornell University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.