[New-Poetry] Geof Huth

[Anny Ballardini]

Don't worry Bob, you like the _browns_ that I cannot stand. We are still two very different identities, :-)
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  From: Bob Grumman 
  To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views 
  Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 3:50 PM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Geof Huth


  Let me rewrite my little speech-y _thank you for the usual patience:

  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 the impression with visual poetry is not through a specific sequence of words, connected or not connected, metered or not, but 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.

  Something's wrong--I think I agree almost entirely with you, Anny--except maybe about Peter C.'s browns.  I do think that insertion of words CAN be enough to make an "illumage" (visual image) into a visual poem.  It depends on what words and how they are used, particularly how they fit with what seems to be the main meaning of the work as a whole.

  --Bob
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