Wednesday, August 17, 2005

At The Hayward Gallery Comments

Rating: 4.8

Gaudy abstracts do nothing for me.
It's that backpack girl, head
between her knees. She must be trying to duck
a seizure, stem an earthquake
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Richard George
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Michael Gessner 19 May 2006

The use of language is the knot of the subject, the girl. The poem is the thing it attempts to portray in itself. This is rare. Stunning.

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Michael Philips 17 August 2005

I like this poem very much Richard. Bravo! I like poems about art and museums for some reason, I guess because the poem is an artform that is commenting or referencing another artform. Also, anything that takes place in a gallery or museum has a heightened artistic quality to it. BTW I think the last line is weak because the statement is kind of obvious. Otherwise, I enjoy it very much.

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