Allen Fisher

"EROS : PATTERN : FATHER" is PLACE 39 & "forms the whole remaining of PLACE Book II." Other parts of this series will be reviewed elsewhere here: see "STANE", "HOOKS", & "UNPOLISHED MIRRORS". Are these places separate maps? puzzle pieces? This one is "to Kirby Malone, april 1976". The section specifically for Kirby begins:

"We exhale death for trees to breathe
a glucose factory in Battersea;
the Bride's reservoir of love-gasoline
lubricates the combustion shunt."

So it seems we have a little ecology here mixed w/ Marcel Duchamp.… (más)

The 1st of these "Kessingland Studies" is printed in 4 colors. All the landscapes are stark, gestural. I enjoy these folio publications: loose pages to be taken out & studied individually. The poem, "AS FAST AS POSSIBLE : II" was given to mail artist Opal L. Nations. It, too, seems to be a landscape, but not as gestural as the prints.

"Upwards cloud whirling downwards into sea swirls up
upwards accumulating note clusters whirlpointing meet
the upper half unfolding a flower that rimes with
and matches the sea"… (más)