Although I dont practice any other arts, I sure find I need them in my
life, & my writing. So I agree. Would add that I've heard Bob Cobbing
improvise with a jazz saxophonist, so he 'made' music too; it was an
amazing performance (but then every one of his I saw/heard was). The
Schwitters show I saw in Vienna a few years ago was amazing....
bpNichol's another whose visual works count, as well as sound; & he
loved dissolving boundaries....
Doug
On 29-Aug-08, at 9:01 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> Surely the idea that poetry is a single hermetically sealed artform is
> a partial result, as Stephen suggests, of the specialisation of
> professionalism and academic streaming. Poets have always been
> interested in other arts, and often practised them themselves. As well
> as those already mentioned, Baudelaire wrote about Delacroix, Frank
> O'Hara wrote about the abstract expressionists, Rilke and Mandelstam
> wrote about Cezanne (although I'm not sure I understood Mandelstam's
> response, which is surrealistically hilarious, perhaps I should read
> it again) - all the early 20C Russian poets were deeply involved in
> the worlds of theatre and dance, Kurt Schwitters and Hans Arp
> dissolved boundaries, Bob Cobbing, Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey and many
> others work also as visual artists, there's Ian Hamilton Finlay, who
> even made gardens. Music just as deeply embedded, and so on and so on.
> The more you look, the more it this curiosity seems a rule rather than
> a curious exception.
>
> Other art forms throw a slant light across poetic practice, and can
> illuminate both what it is and what it isn't. Certainly that's been
> true of my own experiences.
>
> A
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