Jonathan Mayhew
I started using map imagery pretty early in the series of postcards & I especially like the topographical treatment of the mountains torn from one of those small maps the rental car places give you. Carole brought this one back from visiting her aunt in AZ. The maps, especially given that their torn, have a metaphorical content in this project that I don’t want to (wholly) reject.
Dear Jonathan — It’s interesting that we should have struck up an online friendship given our quite dif. tastes in poetry. Fors instance, I just don’t get the abstraction — is that what it is? — of a poet like Clark Coolidge; nor do I find the proceedurali9sm of, say, Silliman, useful or engaging beyond the fact that, yes, it can be done. Why read more than 10 p. of Tjanting? Just one example. On the other hand, I am a bit stuck bcs my own work comes out of the “Confessional” trad. — in which I no longer wholly believe. Not that I dismiss it out of hand, either. [4.17.2008]
