Following sounds like a publisher's sales blurb (should I apologise?)
but this may be an interesting lead wrt to poetry and art photography?


Our World(Hardcover) 
 by Cook, Molly Malone ( Photographer ), Oliver, Mary ( Text by
(Art/Photo Books) ) Our World

Intertwined in art and life: the prose of Mary Oliver and the
photographs of Molly Malone Cook 
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is one of the most
celebrated and best-selling poets in America. Molly Malone Cook, who
died in 2005, was Oliver's partner for many years, a pioneer gallery
owner and photographer. This book joins Cook's photographs with Oliver's
prose--a uniquely intimate intertwining of their lives and art. There
are famous faces here, among them Lorraine Hansberry, Walker Evans,
Norman Mailer, and even, through a restaurant window in Venice, Jean
Cocteau. Other artists and dozens of wonderful characters and scenes are
also immortalized by Cook's unfailing eye for telling detail and perfect
composition--two strangers playing chess, laundry billowing in a
cityscape, a Pueblo Indian with his 1958 Cadillac. Mary Oliver writes of
Cook's work, the people they knew, and the places they visited or lived.
The poet's beautiful text captures not only the unique qualities of her
partner's work, but the very texture of their shared world. 
Within the art world, Molly Malone Cook made her reputation as an early
advocate of photography as an art form; she was a champion of the work
of now-famous photographers, including Edward Steichen, Eugene Atget,
Berenice Abbott, Minor White, Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, and W. Eugene
Smith. Perhaps as important, in Mary Oliver's moving words, Cook taught
the beginner poet "to see, with searching attention, and compassion." 
"Her most affecting work is] not in verse but in prose...remembrances of
her relationship with photographer Molly Malone Cook, who died two years
ago. Oliver's half-dozen passages recalling herpartner from Our World
are] heartfelt, intimate, loving." --John Marshall, Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, 2/5/08 
"The photographs Oliver has chosen reflect Cook's intuitive relationship
with her subjects (even inanimate objects). The little girl on the stoop
in New York City looks directly at the photographer, as does a kindly
Robert Motherwell and a fierce, almost intimidating Walker Evans. Even
though most of the photographs are dominated by a central person or
object, there is a lot to look at in the margins, all part of the story.
The stance of her subjects--reading a book, looking through a
telescope--is always distinctive, creating the mood of the entire
composition. The two photos of Oliver could have been taken only by
someone who knew the subject well." --Susan Salter Reynolds, L. A.
Times, 1/6/08 
"Cook was evidently an accomplished printer as well as a photographer
and the images have been beautifully reproduced...In a photo which Cook
took of Jean Cocteau dining in Venice in May 1954--one of her several
fine portraits of celebrities--we glimpse the photographer silhouetted
in an oval mirror on the wall behind the French poet. Her own face is
hidden by her upheld camera but we sense that she controls the
composition. In this selection of Cook's work, so admirable in
intention, she herself remains something of a shadow in a mirror. But
perhaps, given her honesty of eye, we come to know her best by seeing
the world as it once appeared through the discretion of her lens."
--Eric Ormsby, The New York Sun, 12/5/2007 

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 Product Details 
Publisher : Beacon Press
Published : 10/01/2007