Nov
29
Everyone is at Least a Little Imaginary (A Twenty-Third Letter to a Young, Imaginary Visual Poet)
The Inn at Houghton Creek, Room 12, Houghton, New York
I think an important goal of yours here is to try different methods of creating visual poetry. There are plenty of ways (known and unknown—and, in America sometimes, unknown unknown and known unknown) to put the visual and verbal together, so experiment until you find something that works for you. Remember, though, that closeups of graffiti alone might themselves be visual poems. See the work of Daniel f. Bradley for some ideas. The creator of a visual poem might only be the discoverer and editor.
I wish it were simple for you to develop a coherent topic on visual poetry. But the Kafkaesque labyrinth you talk of is only one manifestation of the visual poem.
I think an important goal of yours here is to try different methods of creating visual poetry. There are plenty of ways (known and unknown—and, in America sometimes, unknown unknown and known unknown) to put the visual and verbal together, so experiment until you find something that works for you. Remember, though, that closeups of graffiti alone might themselves be visual poems. See the work of Daniel f. Bradley for some ideas. The creator of a visual poem might only be the discoverer and editor.
I wish it were simple for you to develop a coherent topic on visual poetry. But the Kafkaesque labyrinth you talk of is only one manifestation of the visual poem.
