tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6503984875865534435..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Jim Dine: the downfall / of your eyesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18223850803123960362012-10-19T07:00:00.915-07:002012-10-19T07:00:00.915-07:00Thanks, Sarah. Jim's poems grow stronger and d...Thanks, Sarah. Jim's poems grow stronger and deeper for me each time I return to them. An amazing artist, for now and for the future (if there is one).TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-23609251990579802492012-10-18T21:53:18.601-07:002012-10-18T21:53:18.601-07:00Thanks for posting this poem. I just saw him read ...Thanks for posting this poem. I just saw him read tonight, at the Dia. Read, talk, sing. Wonderful poems. Wonderful poem, here.Sarah Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17780959351098643176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41598837576129902132011-12-07T10:57:49.951-08:002011-12-07T10:57:49.951-08:00Tom,
"It just came into view" -- and ye...Tom,<br /><br />"It just came into view" -- and yes, as Nin says, "So beautiful!"<br /><br />12.7<br /><br />pink cloud in pale blue sky above black<br />ridge, shadowed bird standing on branch<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> compared to which, and also<br /> an approximation that<br /><br /> is taken into consideration,<br /> i.e., change notation<br /><br />bright orange of sun rising above ridge,<br />white cloud in pale blue sky on horizonSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61938257186227866612011-12-07T03:10:28.172-08:002011-12-07T03:10:28.172-08:00I think you've said it all about Jim's poe...I think you've said it all about Jim's poetry; hopefully there will be more where he comes from.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-82623178379707633682011-12-07T02:30:56.714-08:002011-12-07T02:30:56.714-08:00What I like best about Jim Dine's poems
They ...What I like best about Jim Dine's poems<br /><br />They are fast<br />They are mysterious<br />They are direct<br />They never telegraph their movesTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-4896070256919728472011-12-06T21:10:32.830-08:002011-12-06T21:10:32.830-08:00Curtis,
"I've never read anything quite ...Curtis,<br /><br />"I've never read anything quite like this."<br /><br />That's the same feeling I get with Jim's poems.<br /><br />Another way of saying it might be:<br /><br />"There's no other writer whose work this work reminds me of."<br /><br />That one-off quality makes him a stand-apart poet in a landscape of continuous copycat sameness.<br /><br />His poems don't so much buck the trend as ignore the trend or make their own trend.<br /><br />The "plot" of the poem and its internal dynamics really can't be picked apart.<br /><br />I like that, too.<br /><br />(A Henry Green-ish title passed through the mind: "Museumgoing".)<br /><br />But to attempt interpretation or "explanation" of such an elusive, intricate piece would be like an attempt to see a flower better by pulling off its petals. Soon enough, we might have a pile of petals... but where has the flower gone.<br /><br />I think Jim writes his poems the old fashioned way, with that curious object people used to use... a pen I believe it was called.<br /><br />He doesn't do e-mail, so the poems come to me in the strangest fashion: he faxes the scripts from Europe to his assistant in Walla Walla, who types them into e-mails, which then come to me. <br /><br />They are literally "fresh": with the poems you've seen here, the period between composition and posting can't have been more than a few days.<br /><br />The challenge with this post was also the great private pleasure and revelation and labour and joy of it: a long night spent in the sketches and drawings of Leonardo.<br /><br />An artist so great and famous is perhaps too easily taken for granted. After this search, I will never be tempted to do that again.<br /><br />Few draughtsmen are worthy of having their names included in the same sentence with Leonardo da Vinci, but I think Jim Dine is one.<br /><br />Steidl has issued some swell collections of Jim's drawings in recent years. I wonder, for example, if you might have happened to see <a href="http://www.steidlville.com/books/1265-The-Glyptotek-Drawings.html" rel="nofollow">The Glypotek Drawings</a>?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73999629986390176032011-12-06T16:32:34.213-08:002011-12-06T16:32:34.213-08:00It's funny: I've never read anything quite...It's funny: I've never read anything quite like this. <br /><br />the child of The Baptist.<br />Rushing the ending<br />...because The Baptist is so strong.<br />It just came into view<br />...so rush it!<br /><br />Blue limbs, gold draperies<br /><br />John The Baptist and Leonardo are exceptionally strong characters. I'm fascinated how the poet arranges the poem and stays out of their way. <br /><br />CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-32002938341243554172011-12-06T08:53:51.526-08:002011-12-06T08:53:51.526-08:00Thanks, Nin. The good word from a fellow artist --...Thanks, Nin. The good word from a fellow artist -- Jim and Leo are going to appreciate that.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80205066959232292462011-12-06T08:49:56.894-08:002011-12-06T08:49:56.894-08:00So beautiful! What else can I say?So beautiful! What else can I say?Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41483091901376199072011-12-06T02:11:09.313-08:002011-12-06T02:11:09.313-08:00Another brand new poem fresh from the pen of the a...Another brand new poem fresh from the pen of the amazing American artist Jim Dine.<br /><br />See also:<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/jim-dine-we-lived-once-in-ideal-kingdom.html" rel="nofollow">Jim Dine: We lived once in an ideal kingdom</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com