The Search of Appearance: Poems of Hungary, Second Selection
The Search of Appearance: Poems of Hungary, Second Selection

Summary/Abstract: The Editor’s first set of selections, in the previous issue, emphasized social-political themes. This second set emphasizes art-making intention: hearing and seeing, perceptions shaped into poems, paintings. The earlier set made reference to Wallace Stevens, but this set looks more to the example of William Carlos Williams: the democracy of things seen, importance of feeling-tone of place, the three-tier line Williams developed in books of the forties and fifties – based on the coincidence and non-coincidence of intonational phrases with the step-down line. Looking Away: On not-seeing, and on perception that occurs before cognition in the image of the University cat.

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