Doug,
I admire the sound patterning created by the recurrent letters c,l,o,t. The constructed
world of her paintings neatly contained by the sound of the first four lines ebbs a bit via
the verbs in the past tense connected to "mind" in lines 5-7, though the sound of those
three words ending in "t" and "d" maintains artistic closure overall. Until the openness of
the sounds governing the last stanza (five "o"s) renders a passage finalized by the hard
"k" of "dark".
Barbara Caruso's name was familiar to me via her collaborations with bpNichol and other
Canadian writers, but I was able to find even one image of her paintings on the internet.
So I kept in mind hard-edged works by Washington Color School painters Keneth Noland,
Anne Truitt, and Gene Davis which I had seen recently. I'm sure her work is somewhat
different, but all of them apparently share color as subject matter.
Barry
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:30:23 -0700, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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>i.m. Barbara Caruso
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>such clean lines
>clear the colours
>so contained so
>constructed construed
>the mind that thought
>those complements
>felt them too
>
>those colours
>gone now
>into the dark
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>
>
>Douglas Barbour
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