Sunday, October 18, 2009

rather than have his mind stop

My favorite literary photographer, Lawrence Schwartzwald, got this good shot at "Poet's Forum" at The New School in Greenwich Village yesterday. The topic was "Prosody in Free Verse." and here you see Frank Bidart (with Sharon Olds) getting animated when discussing an excerpt from Pound's Canto CXV, the different versions of the poem, the spacing on the page.
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop...

Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
photo credit: (c) Lawrence Schwartzwald