The collision of my (re)reading of Charles Bernstein and Marjorie Welish and the arrival of a book on Eva Hesse's drawings plus deciding to have another go at Johanna Drucker's 'Theorizing Modernism' has led to a fruitful week of thinking, jotting, rethinking, more jotting.
Somehow - for me at least - to engage with visual art (most especially modern sculpture) allows ideas about poetry to come into sharper focus. Thus, the way Hesse expands the flat surface of the canvas by means of extruded lines (string, wire, cables) and in so doing puts in question all sorts of issues of two-dimensional and three-dimensional art and the 'meaning' of line, surface, depth, etc. is immensely suggestive of the poetic 'space' of word, line, page, volume.
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