Joseph Stanton

• Name — Joseph Stanton • Occupation — poet, scholar, professor

Joseph Charles Stanton, born February 4, 1949, in St. Louis, Missouri, is a poet and a scholar who taught art history and American studies at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa where he is a Professor Emeritus. He has published extensively on American art, literature, and culture. One of his special areas of work concerns the intersection of the visual and literary arts. His essays on image-word topics have been appeared in such journals as Art Criticism, American Art, Journal of American Culture, Harvard Library Bulletin, The Lion and the Unicorn, Soundings, Children's Literature, and Michigan Quarterly Review. He has also written on baseball topics for such journals as Nine, Spitball, and Aethlon. As an art historian, Stanton has published essays on Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, Maurice Sendak, Chris Van Allsburg, Edward Gorey, and many other artists. Joseph Stanton's books of poems include A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban Oahu, Cardinal Points, Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art, and What the Kite Thinks. He has published more than 300 poems in such journals as Poetry, Harvard Review, Poetry East, The Cortland Review, Ekphrasis, Bamboo Ridge, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Endicott Studio's Journal of the Mythic Arts, and New York Quarterly. In 2007, Ted Kooser selected one of Stanton's poems for his "American Life in Poetry" column. Under the guidance of Makoto Ooka, he participated with Wing Tek Lum and Jean Toyama in the collaborative renshi poem What the Kite Thinks. His next book of poems, Lifelines: Poems for Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper, will be published by Shanti Arts Publishing in 2023. His 2005 book, The Important Books: Children's Picture Books as Art and Literature, he examines the picture-books of such artist-writers as Maurice Sendak, Chris Van Allsburg, Arnold Lobel, and William Joyce. His 2011 book, Looking for Edward Gorey, is the culmination of his many years of research into all things Gorey. His other books include Prevailing Winds, Moving Pictures, Things Seen, Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art, A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban Oahu: Poems, Cardinal Points: Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball, What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem, Stan Musial: A Biography, and A Hawaii Anthology.

• The Space-Time Continuum and The Slow Eye of Stan The Man * • Jackie Robinson Stealing Home * • Five Poems on Baseball Art • Baseball Is For All Seasons • Edward Hopper's Night Hawks Consider the 1942 World Series

• Banana Trees featured by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate • Mejiro

• Edward Hopper's New York Movie • Nighthawks as Noir • Jacob Wrestling with an Angel • Winslow Homer Painting a Summer Night • Five Paintings by Winslow Homer • Rene Magritte's Infinite Recognition • Rene Magritte's The Unexpected Answer • Pieter Bruegel's The Harvesters • Joseph Stella Painting Brooklyn Bridge • Edward Hopper's Early Sunday Morning • John Frederick Kensett's On the Connecticut Shore • Winslow Homer's Paris Courtyard • The Poetry of Joseph Stanton

• Collection of Fairy Tale poems on Endicott Studio Journal of Mythic Arts

• The Killers • Groundhog Day • Vertigo • For Sinatra in the Wee Small Hours

• Looking for Edward Gorey, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, 2011 • Stan Musial: A Biography, Greenwood Press, 2007 • The Important Books: Children's Picture Books as Art and Literature, Scarecrow Press, 2005 Books Edited • The Quietest Singing, (with Darrell H. Y. Lum and Estelle Enoki), University of Hawaii Press, 2000 • A Hawaii Anthology, University of Hawaii Press, 1997 • The Ten Rules of Fishing, (with James Harstad), Bamboo Ridge Press, 1985 • British & European Literature, Vol. I, II, & III, 1983

• Librarian of the Night • Storm at Cedarmere • The Poet Hare in Mid-Air