Twenty-two Yale alumni who have become poets chose 22 objects from the Yale Art Gallery and wrote a poem to/about/for/inspired by/etc. about that work. The 22 poems and objects are presented in chronological order based on the art and followed by a brief commentary on both by the editors. Well-known poets (McClatchey, Jonathan Aaron, Hollander, and Warren) and better-known artists (Hopper, Pollock, Oldenburg, Bonnard, Du Champ, Giacometti, Malevich, Joseph Stella, Kline, Schwitters, Martin, Kollewitz, Westin, Dali, Evans, Tauber-Arp, Rothko, Calder) combine for a magical experience in ekphrastic poetry—a poem directed to a particular work. Some particularly lovely works—DuChamp’s ready-mades are described as “elevating the ordinary simply by endowing it with a title.”