Description
Poetry. California Interest. Art. PAINTING (2.4.97 - 4.21.97) transcribes perceptions of 'real' things, demonstrate how the three-dimensional world might be 'registered' in lines running clear across the horizontal, two-dimensional page: 81 poems written in 81 consecutive days which mean to enact (i.e., make present) the world-as-painting/ painting-as-world that is my subject, just as Mondrian's grids can be viewed as an 'abstract' enactment of how and what we actually see. Thus, for example, "fact (geometric)/ of lines a bird makes descending from upper left corner to the empty space immediately in front of it."
Author Bio
Stephen Ratcliffe is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, including PAINTING (Chax 2014) and SELECTED DAYS (Counterpath 2012), which won the Poetry Center Book Award. He has also written three books of literary criticism. His ongoing series of five 1,000-page books written in 1,000 consecutive days is available from Editions Eclipse, and his daily poems and photographs are available at Temporality (stephenratcliffe.blogspot.com). He lives in Bolinas, California.
Author City: BOLINAS, CA USA