tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445101535508775537.post2889805405302327120..comments2011-05-24T13:24:32.540-07:00Comments on Joe Betz: Visual PoeticsJoe Betzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05928189060653677464noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445101535508775537.post-20892146436246122442011-01-30T13:55:52.926-08:002011-01-30T13:55:52.926-08:00what i like about the poem is it's ability to ...what i like about the poem is it's ability to create "infinite poem." you can literally start reading wherever and stop reading wherever. i also do like that the repeated "who's" create sort of a pattern and that this consistency makes the circle more glaring, more solar. this is very much a more focused version of a poem i've read in gillian conoley's the plot genie, a book i didn't thoroughly enjoy. i wish i had the book in front of me right now so i could say something about that, but i don't. anyway, this whole olsonesque thing of using the poem as a field seems sort of restrictive in a way, that being that using the poem as a piece of visual art, one has a hard time focusing on the poem as an act of language at the same time. i don't remember any lines because i was focused on the act of turning my laptop screen around and felt distracted by the novelty of doing so (which is exactly my reaction to the conoley poem i mentioned earlier).DBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13361787862466570073noreply@blogger.com