Her singular topography, bayou lifestyle, subset of French-speaking Cajuns and fascinating politics exist nowhere else in the country.
He committed suicide, leaving her to raise their three daughters in poverty and inspiring some of her most harrowing verse, most evident in her second book, "Topography and Other Poems" (1971), but a recurring subject throughout her career.
Then there's the almighty Ana Mendieta, a Cuban performance artist known for her "earth-body" sculptures, or siluetas, sculptural interventions that fold anatomy into topography, her human silhouette molded to resemble ancient Mexican goddesses.
Evoking the landscape of Hawaii Island's volcanic topography, her intimately monumental and monochromatic sculpture Mauna references the invisible life that swirls all around and lies beneath the surface of the air and earth.
Her exploration initially grew out of her interest in the topography of Venezuela -- its savannas, high plateaus, lowlands and jungles -- and the interesting natural features found there.
And as the Palestinian authority, led by a childhood friend whom he has come to hate, tries to make political capital from this death, Raad is forced to re-evaluate the political underpinning of his entire life.Ms Wilentz's accurate topography and her deep engagement with contemporary politics push her novel to the very borders of non-fiction.
About a year ago, she says, she gave an informal presentation to representatives of Unilever, which owns Ben & Jerry's, where she flaunted her fluency in "the topography and runoff issues affecting Vermont farmers" and showed mock labels she designed for the delicacy.
Laborious to read about, too: descriptions of her technical minutiae, and of the formal topographies of her paintings, accurate though they may be, can be as indigestible as the prose of a car-repair manual.
Holloway sounds on the brink of madness, romping over a demented melodic topography and constantly unleashing her secret weapon, an almost polyphonic yell that acts as a war cry for love's constant battle.
She also changed her artistic focus, moving away from vast, impersonal landscapes — as seen in "Siberia," her 2004 show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago — in favor of portraits that trace the intimate topography of daily lives, others' and her own.
