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Written by Marc Elihu Hofstadter. By Scarlet Tanager Books.
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1 comments about Visions: Paintings by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Chang Dai-chien, Georgia O'Keeffe and California Impressionists Seen Through the Optic of Poetry.
- Marc Elihu Hofstadter, Visions: Paintings Seen Through the Optic of Poetry (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2001)
After I'd read a few pages of this, I was relatively sure I'd read it before; however, I couldn't find a review of it, so I figured I was just caught in a case of deja vu. Turns out that, no, I did read it back in 2004. But my review seems to have slipped through the cracks, so here I am again, having wasted another four hours of my existence on this godawful mess. You can be sure that this time it's headed off to Half-Price Books so I don't make the same mistake again.
There are a great many aspiring poets who don't understand that poetry is not just prose chopped up into little lines. Thankfully, you see this trend a great deal less among the published set, but there are still times when it rears its ugly head:
"I'm an artist trying to make a work
I've learned to draw well
so I put this white line here,
shade this yellow rectangle just so
and make the orange glow
But it's not quite right
It expresses my soul
but not all of it"
("No. 19, 1949")
I'm not even sure where to start with all that's wrong with that poem. However, it's pretty easy to illustrate what I'm talking about: write it out yourself, taking out all the line breaks, as a paragraph, inserting the necessary punctuation. Do you find it notably changed when you read it that way? If not, then what's the justification for making it poetry and not prose?
An awful book from front to back. I guess the reason I read it again is because I'd blocked it out of my head the first time; I shall endeavor to do so again immediately. *
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Written by GREGORY WHITE SMITH STEVEN NAIFEH. By BARRIE JENKINS.
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No comments about On Duberman's Black Mountain: & B.H. Friedman's biography of Jackson Pollock.
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Written by Jackson Pollock. By Sidney Janis Gallery.
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Written by Jackson Pollock and Bernice Rose. By Museum of Modern Art, in association with the Draw.
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Written by Michael Leja. By Yale University Press.
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