[New-Poetry] Fwd: Poet of the Month or Poetry versus Painting

[Anny Ballardini]

What does Tad Richards think, and what do I think, or other people who try or tried to master both?

"My husband is a painter, and he often says he envies poets-"You guys can just come out and say what you mean," he says.  Oh, honey!  Mine has been a long abidance with words, and I still feel the frustration of how often they come up short.  There's this diffuse image-thought-energy-emotion nebula floating around in the head, with patches of darkness and quivers of light.  And on the page, draft after draft after draft, all taking stabs at getting it down, much less getting it right.  The writing process is a long interior conversation, with all parts of the self, and it dwindles at times to a self-interrogation, without the strobes.  What comes out of all this?  Sometimes pitifully little. Death, especially, exposes the limitations of language.  Every funeral or memorial service I've been to has made me aware that language, like some kind of old-fashioned, fussy wallpaper, merely covers over all the bumps and crevasses.  On the other hand, without hymns or homilies or poems, how would we deal with the rotten luck of our mortality?  Let's face it, after awhile, the silence gets to you."

Clare Rossini


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jforjames at aol.com 
  To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 8:45 PM
  Subject: [New-Poetry] Fwd: Poet of the Month


  I'll top David's Verse Daily pick. Someone I know is Poet of the Month...


  http://poetrynet.org/month/index.htm.

  Clare Rossini


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