[New-Poetry] Never Mind The Pollocks

[Roger Day]

The admiration for Pollock expressed in this forum is shared by me.
However, I have .. questions. Art practice is about control: control
of media, the reader/viewer, experience ... yet Pollock pushes those
boundaries. Oh, he has a modicum control in that each painting is a
selection of colours and he places them - approximately and this is
the rub - where he wants but if Art practice is continuum of control
to un-control, then his methods swing to the latter unlike, say,
Rothko whose methods veer towards absolute control. Who are Pollocks
heirs? Not many, I think. Damien Hirst for one, possibly. Any others?

My tutor hated Pollock to the extent that Pollock disappeared off his
teaching map.

How does this translate into poetry? If poetic practice is about
control, whose poetical methods resemble Pollocks? Whose poetry is the
parallel of Pollocks paintings?

Roger
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