Jess, Robert Duncan: On Reading, 1957 (BG6107, view 1, recto). Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.
Physical Description
- Medium
- mixed media
- Support
- card
- Dimensions
- 31.1 cm 31.1 cm (Object)
- Object Description
- Collaged cover for a record album.
Written on verso:
A Reading of Poems November 1956 // LP Robert Duncan // Side One: The Green Lady - Upon Taking Hold - First Invention on the Theme of the Adam // Side Two: Light Song - Re- - August Sun - Medea's sing from The Maidenhead - Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow - The Dance - // ON READING // of escudero in STYLE Marianne Moore exclaims: "no more fanatical adjuster / of the tilted hat // than escudero; of tempos others can't combine." I find echoes of old admirations, expected and un-expected: of Joyce and of Eliot reading long ago The Hollow Men (in "First Inventions" part 5). But my concept of a reading old relate to two I find over years finest to my ear - Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams. Certainly that a reading shld senter exact measure. It is the movement of the poem, its articulation of the time of reading, that is source and consummation. The isolated consonants ("n" in Light song and "d" in The Dance) most delight me. Perhaps the shortest duration of phrase. Long striding lines, the "In Rubens' riotous scene the May dancers teach us our learning seeks abandon" of The Dance that seems to spring out of "the Breughel's great picture, The Kermess: by longing, equally please me. Measured so close to my models, my own nature gains distinction. I' am rewarded in my impulses, my defaults.
R.D. January 1957
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History
- Collection
- Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estates of Robin Blaser and David Farwell, 2020
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