"Young Woman Peeling Apples" is an eclectically curated collection of poems on art and artists. It includes over forty poems on art and artists ranging from anonymous to Atget, Bonnard, Hiroshige, Klee, Maes (the title poem), Monet, Joan Mitchell, Agnes Martin, Pissarro, Rothko, Charlotte Salomon, Vermeer, Vuillard, Whistler, and many others.