Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Great Regulars: It may seem lightweight,

but it is also remarkably tensile, an unbreakable thread holding his often startling imagery tightly together. So we can see how "the fluorescent tubing burns like a bobby-soxer's ankles" and recognize immediately "the flushed effulgence of a sky Tiepolo/and Turner had compiled in vistavision."

The style derives, it would seem, from the method of composition: "I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures," [Frank] O'Hara wrote. "I don't even like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve."

from Frank Wilson: Philadelphia Inquirer: Poet of Pepsis and burgers

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