Poems
Folio #4 - August 6, 2009
crystalline fogged s himmer
Fragments / of / Houston S treet
his comments / were / experimental
even / the flagstones / almost / fainted
big paintings / punctuate / the body
figurative / a passing car / literalness / recoils from memory
in 90-degree rotation / color-coded / the line of her inquiry / bolder in pictorial
a / mirror reversal / light snow
mathmatical / fuguelike
sequences arranges / blotted schemas
“by gridding the pictorial field / into sequences of boxes”
she is a thin fall of snow / splayed
allover / optical / dazzle
the complete lack on meaning / overlaps / in passing cars
her degraded replication / he is rarely discussed / recurrently
more garrulous / by contrast / numbered
Folio #5 - August 7, 2009
Nestled in the lower right corner
handmade / mechanical / intervention
in a flickering / manipulated / in solvent
the / most coherently
process and subject / the veneer of touch
44 of him / laying face down
caught in their / pers onal asides
time-capsule / astronaut s / clearer than Dante
each / fragment / without sentimentality
strobelike / magazine clippings
her postcards / her windstorms / sheen in a manner
words caught in / o’hara
“grenades wanted” / delicacy invades
men in suits / sprinkled / in the margins
map / orbit / free-ranging or thw art
the purchasable / stands in / for the artist
R&F Reds
Anne Gorrick is a poet and visual artist. She is the author of I-Formation (Book 2) (Shearsman Books, Bristol, UK, 2012), I-Formation (Book 1) (Shearsman, 2010), and Kyotologic (Shearsman, 2008). She collaborated with artist Cynthia Winika to produce a limited edition artists’ book, “Swans, the ice,” she said, funded by the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
She curates the reading series Cadmium Text, which focuses on innovative writing from in and around New York’s Hudson Valley (www.cadmiumtextseries.blogspot.com). She also co-curates the electronic poetry journal Peep/Show with poet Lynn Behrendt (www.peepshowpoetry.blogspot.com), which is a “taxonomic exercise in textual and visual seriality.”
Images of her visual art can be found here: http://theropedanceraccompaniesherself.blogspot.com/
Anne Gorrick lives in West Park, New York.
