American Daguerreotypes: Ekphrastic Poems

By James Penha

A new chapbook of poems written by James Penha who was inspired to write them by 19th Century Daguerreotype photos of famous and infamous Americans including Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James McNeil Whistler, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Tom Thumb, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Daguerreotypes are included in the book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GLMTB23H
• ISBN13: 9798246895184
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 42 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"