Poetry Plastique Author:John Cage, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Christian Bok, Robert Grenier, Jackson MacLow, Steve McCaffery, Emily McVarish, Nick Piombino, Darren Wershler-Henry, Johanna Drucker, Kenneth Goldsmith, Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, Robert Creeley, David Antin, Philip Guston, Arakawa, Wallace Berman, Emilie Clark Accompanying a unique exhibition at the respected Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, this book is a remarkable combination of the work of poets and artists, that explores in new ways the relationship between the visual and the verbal. In his preface, Charles Bernstein writes: "Not words and pictures but poems as visual objects. Not poems abou... more »t pictures but pictures that are poems. Not works closed in a book but hanging on a wall or suspended from the ceiling or rising from the floor or sounding from inside a figure or embedded with paint on a canvas or written in the sky or flickering on a screen." Co-curator Jay Sanders explains in his introduction: "We had a gallery and we wanted to flood it with poetry. Not with "poetic" artwork, but with actual poetry, made by poets. But, we have gallery walls, not pages in a book. So we organized a show of art overrun with poetry and a show of poetry riddled with art." Artists include among others: Carl Andre, Arakawa, Susan Bee, Tom Phillips, Mira Schor, Kiki Smith, Philip Guston, Wallace Berman, Robert Smithson, Richard Tuttle, Michael Snow. Poets include among others: David Antin, Robert Creeley, Clark Coolidge, Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, John Cage, Madeline Gins, Lyn Hejinian, Kenneth Goldsmith, Robert Grenier, Tan Lin, Jackson MacLow, Steve McCaffery, Emily McVarnish, Nick Piombino. Edited by Charles Bernstein and Jay Sanders.