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9 May 2005: It has long interested me that so many artists, including highly innovative ones like Cummings, fail to take steps that, in retrospect, seem obvious ones for them to have taken to me. Cummings, for instance, although a terrific painter, never made a serious visual poem that included graphics--as his contemporary Kenneth Patchen did. He also seems never to have commposed a visual poem in which any line of text was not parallel to all the other lines of text on the page. No over-printing, either--something Karl Kempton, another highly innovative visual poet, went for decades without doing, and now does, if I remember rightly, only slightly--not like Jonathan Brannen does in his Warp & Peace, which Geof Huth has recently made a blog entry about and which, as a result, I plan to show in its entirety (it's quite short) here.
It all makes me wonder what obvious steps I haven't taken.
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