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

[Anny Ballardini]

Thank you Tad. I agree with the non-thinking aspect, not specifically in 
painting. I just picked up crochet, and yes, that was not to think. But even 
with crochet you have to think if you want to make something, so I just 
worked straight through, a long narrow senseless stripe.

And yes, with portraits you have to apply your self, but also with trees, 
and leaves (ah how difficult those leaves) to give them volume and 
credibility and shades and light... My poor poor head, if only I had a spare 
one to use once in a while, :-)

From: "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:56 AM


>I always thought, until I started doing it, that painting was much easier, 
>because you didn't have to come up with a subject -- you could just go find 
>a tree, or a nude, or the dishes in your sink, and start painting. And 
>actually I still do think that, to some extent.
>
> But I'd mostly take issue with Mr. Clare Rossini on the question of just 
> coming out and saying what you mean. I go along with whoever said if know 
> what you want to say, it's by definition not worth saying. And if it was 
> me that said that, then I go along with me.
>
> When I draw or paint, I do it with my hand and eye -- I try to engage my 
> conscious mind in the process as little as possible. That's why, even 
> though I've done all those poetry portraits, I'm never really happy doing 
> portraits, because you have to think -- what does this person really look 
> like? What do I have to do to capture that?
>
>
>
> Anny Ballardini wrote:
>> 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 <mailto:jforjames at aol.com>
>>     *To:* new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu <mailto: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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> -- 
> Tad Richards
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> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>
> The moral is this: in American verse,
> The better you are, the pay is worse.
>  --Corey Ford
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