The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual

Elisa Gabbert at the New York Times: To write about art might encourage some removal from the self, but nothing requires it. And so this accident of history has caused me to associate I-lessness with ekphrasis: a mode that elides the I as if some universal eye were speaking out. The invisible, anony.

The invisible, anony.