Art News and Opinion: July 23, 2010
Tags/ Posted by Laura LawsonThe road unwraps like scissors slicing down a strip of ribbon to make it curl.continue reading this poem
Kelly Hartog reports from Mail Online on Frances Bean Cobain’s first art show at La Luz De Jesus Gallery in East Los Angeles. Hartog cites the late rocker Kurt Cobain’s now teenaged daughter’s show as exactly what you would expect: exponentially creepy.
Clayton Eshleman’s Poetic Art
Tags/ Posted by David MaclaganYou marvel at mosslight & owl-screech, question if keening is important—the dirge of bees swarming at the windowsills, the roosters that only crow at night.continue reading this poem
The American poet Clayton Eshleman’s work, spanning forty-five years and including major works of translation (Cesaire, Vallejo) as well as editing, is much less well-known than it deserves to be. Rather than try to give some kind of an overview of his substantial achievement, which makes him in my opinion one of the most important living poets in the English-speaking world, I have decided to focus on Eshleman’s writing about painting, not only because of its unusual range and depth, but also in the hope that this will encourage some readers to explore his work further.
