[New-Poetry] book art (or autopsies)

[James Cervantes]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:

> James Cervantes wrote:
>
>> Terrific. The printed book has a future.  Makes you want to go out and buy
>> a bunch of xacto knives and start in on the old library.
>>
>> Visual poetry truly.
>>
>> - Jim
>>
> You really don't find these things interesting, Jim?  I don't expect others
> necessarily to find them more interesting than the poems published in those
> newspaper columns Poet Laureates are blessing us with, but I can understand
> how one with any interest in books or visual art would not find them
> interesting.  It's actually 3-D collage--but (for me) fascinatingly
> constrained by the limitations on what cut-up can be used and where it can
> be used.


I find them quite interesting and I wish the visual poetry I see on the web
had that extra dimension that Dettmer's work has (no pun intended).  I know
it's a different medium, but not that different since it utilizes the word
to a great degree.  Most visual poetry I see is also collage but a flat
collage, even when animated.  One could add 3-D, I suppose, and holographs,
and music . . . but then it's becoming something else, no?  Not that there's
anything wrong with that.

-- Jim
"Polish doesn't change quartz into a diamond."
                               -Wilma Askinas
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