2 October 2005: I have a retraction to make today. About seven months ago, I wondered in my blog entry how the following work by Karl Young (one frame of a four-frame set) could be considered a visual poem: I looked at the piece again a little while ago after being somewhat reprimanded by Karl for "misreading" it (I mischaracterized but never read it. I don't know how I managed not to take in its title (although when I first saw it, it had just been put up at the gallery it was being exhibited at, and had no title near--but I'm blockheaded enough to have found out the title and still not been able to fit it to the set). While I continue to hold that the words in this piece are effectually labels, so don't make it a visual poem, the five exclamation marks that the work also is do make it a visual poem--by fusing graphic material with textual material. The other three frames in the sequence do the same thing, once, with periods (that can also be an ellipsis), and, twice, with question marks. Do go to Durban Segnini Show at Spidertangle to view the whole work. A beautiful work (as I previously said), however classified.

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