"‘Extraordinary’ Poetry Book by William Blake Sold by Sotheby’s for Record $4.3M"
"Songs of Innocence and of Experience highlights Blake’s exploration of “two contrary states of the human soul,” as the book’s subtitle notes....It also has 54 pen- and watercolor-etched plates. The 230-year-old book also showcases Blake’s innovative etching and printing method. Each page integrates text and imagery, hand-colored and richly detailed, exemplifying his innovative approach to illustration."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Alina Stefanescu on Language as Form
"Gaps are loud: they announce an absence. I love thinking about how absences are announced. In Wolf's lyric serialism, the fragments reveal their constraints: they recombine to offer a speaker starved of affection or tenderness. The absence is announced through sparsity. Other absences are announced through excess, as in accumulations of descriptions where the accretion reveals that something is missing." |
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