Apr 13, 2006
Maverick Son...
currently working on a Coolidge tape all about Philip Guston...no matter how many Coolidge tapes i do i never get sick of them (unlike Ginsberg "that Spencer poem is obviously about sucking cock!")...Clark has this amazing sort of tough guy drawl...very soothing, very "don't fuck with me"...
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sounds really interesting, i'd love to hear it. poets need to be thinking about 'visual' artists and the visual arts a lot more than they do. i think there is a direct correlation that isn't only accessed via VisPo and its brethren. how can i get a copy?
Eric U
well, if all goes well it should be available for free downloads/ listening at the naropa online archives...but, i'll try and sneak you a copy before that...
right on. thanks
i think poets *do* think a lot about visual arts/artists... at least, say, poets of, say, the 20s-30s and 60s-70s? or some such breakdown. it is true that they should think *more* about the visual arts, and i think all people who want to be "visual poets" need to spend some serious time studying art history and art (mechanics). most visual poetry i see is unorganized and, well, bad. i don't think mine is, but i also took art lessons for like 12 years. so i really think about arrangement, spacing, what par tof the page one's eyes meet first as a reader v. what parts one sees first as a viewer of visual art, etc. i've heard a number of conference papers on poets talking about artists, and most of them really don't have a clue.
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