[New-Poetry] Never Mind The Pollocks

[Roger Day]

sure - I dont mean "out of control", rather, compare Pollock with say,
anyone with a brush. It's about how much control does one have over
the process ... (un)control can never be absolute.

How much choice does one surrender to the process? And how? From
machine-generated poems to Coleridge's Kubla Khan?


Roger

On 11/3/08, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Roger, too tempting, I wish to say just one thing.
> Pollock was not out of control. I was lucky enough to watch a video shot
> while he was working. His is a dance, a projection of sorts, a prayer,
> complete involvement, a magician performing,
>
> yes, Pollock is among my favorite painters, high up there on the
> never-ending ladder.
>
> And about Kline, with reference to our previous contributor, I finally got
> to what he meant by being haunted by those powerful black strokes. I had
> several pages open, and when I returned to the one with Kline's painting I
> felt the 'black grip' sucking you out from the left.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Roger Day <rog3r.day at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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