Not having paid attention for a month, apologies if I am in on the
tail end of a general chorus of admiration for oops the join.
Before it starts, it`s "for absent drawings by Siobhan Liddell"; after
it`s over, "originally written based on a book of watercolours by SL":
which is not the same thing. More than ever, you have to watch the
prepositions of the author of "Talk About About". It`s not obviously
a text for, by, with performance, but its concern with all forms of
relation, linguistic: sensual, suggests it`s from performance. The
mouth does more than just (ho hum) speak, like drool, kiss, taste &c.
for: intended to reach, directed at or belonging to, concerning, but,
above all maybe, in favour of - by the compliment of sustained
attention.
The chains of prepositions and conjunctions, links and links of links, look
like linguistic equivalents of the artist`s line, and eventually, for
me, recall versions of discrete units within the poems of early Clark
Coolidge, circa Flag Flutter & US Electric, combined with the
contemplative focussings of 80s, 90s Coolidge (not a synthesis that
appears in CC`s work, unless I`ve missed it up `til now). It also
sent me back to Denise Riley`s very different poems "about"? "for"?
painting in Mop Mop Georgette. Shriek of delighted surprise - we`re
all related! = oops the join.
It also looks as good as it should - a production of the very highest
class by rempress.
Get one.
robin
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