[New-Poetry] book art (or autopsies)

[JforJames at aol.com]

One of the arresting aspects of Dettmer's incised books is the feeling of  
violation or even violence toward the text; and of course the  randomness of 
what words/phrases get exposed by cutting into those layers  of pages, that gives 
the work another intriquing dimension.
Finnegan
 
In a message dated 1/3/2009 9:12:55 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
cervantes.james at gmail.com writes:


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



 
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