A Poem For Tuesday


Happy National Poetry Month. Here is one by Paul Violi:

Index

Hudney, Sutej IX, X, XI, 7, 9, 25, 58, 60, 61, 64
   Plates 5, 10, 15
   Childhood 70, 71
   Education 78, 79, 80
   Early relationship with family 84
   Enters academy, honors 84
   Arrest and bewilderment 85
   Formation of spatial theories 90
   "Romance of Ardoy, The" 92
   Second arrest 93
   Early voyages, life in the Pyrenees 95
   Marriage 95
   Abandons landscape painting 96
   Third arrest 97
   Weakness of character, inconstancy 101
   First signs of illness, advocation of celibacy 106, 107
   Advocates abolishment of celibacy 110
   Expulsion from Mazar 110
   Collaborations with Ferando Gee 111
   Composes lines beginning: "Death, wouldst that I had died
     / While thou wert still a mystery." 117
   Consequences of fame, violent rows, professional disputes
     118, 119
   Disavows all his work 120
   Bigamy, scandals, illness, admittance of being "easily crazed,
     like snow." 128
   Theories of perspective published 129
   Birth of children 129
   Analysis of important works:
     Wine glass with fingerprints
     Nude on a blue sofa
     The drunken fox trappers
     Man wiping tongue with large towel
     Hay bales stacked in a field
     Self-portrait
     Self-portrait with cat
     Self-portrait with frozen mop
     Self-portrait with belching duck
135
   Correspondence with Cecco Angolieri 136
   Dispute over attribution of lines: "I have as large supply of
     evils / as January has not flowerings." 137
   Builds first greenhouse 139
   Falling out with Angolieri 139
   Flees famine 144
   Paints Starved cat eating snow 145
   Arrested for selling sacks of wind to gullible peasants 146
   Imprisonment and bewilderment 147
   Disavows all his work 158
   Invents the collar stay 159
   Convalescence with third wife 162
   Complains of "a dense and baleful wind blowing the words
     I write off the page." 165
   Meets with Madame T. 170
   Departures, moral premonitions, "I think I'm about to
     snow." 176
   Disavows all his work 181
   Arrest and pardon 182
   Last days 183
   Last words 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190

Paul Violi


Bruce A Jacobs April 13, 2010 - 12:22am
( categories: Miscellany )

Very inventive, and in Pound's words, it "makes it new."

"Sí che dal fatto il dir non sia diverso."

-Dante

Sean Paul Kelley April 13, 2010 - 10:13pm

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