[New-Poetry] Geof Huth

[Anny Ballardini]

  From: Bob Grumman 
  Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 2:27 PM




  To me, they're just flow-breaks--that is, they don't have anything to do with visual poetry.  They slow the read and emphasize a poem is being enacted.  They sometimes disconceal so ME thing that prose reading would miss.  If syntax is lost, they can make a text a smear of words the engagent puts together the way he puts together the visual elements of a purely visual collage.  They form an impression rather than a sort of statement.  

  --Bob G.

  Poetry also plays on sensibility, on the im-pressions we receive. It talks to sensitivity as opposed to rationality (otherwise it would be an essay). The way you receive this impression is not through a specific sequence of words, connected or not connected, metered or not, by usually through a sequence/composition of images and words. 

  I don't consider Peter Ciccariello's work visual poetry but elaborated "digital images" tout-court, I don't like the use he does of all those browns. And in other images (black and white) I can always detect remakes of more famous paintings or photographs. The fact that he inserts words does not mean that it is poetry.

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