As Visuality

By Anne Gorrick

"In Anne Gorrick's richly-faceted collection A's Visuality, found texts are held up to the light and transformed into energies that can't be contained by convention: "Origin and then form conforms to our interest." This is the work of a highly-engaged intelligence, and Gorrick has made her own system by moving through the world with the given that this, too, is poetry. Here, it is color-- not darkness-- that surrounds us. What a beautiful place she has made.--Carolyn GuinzioSome poems are written slant. They surfaced because their poets didn't have an idea they imposed on the poem to develop. They surfaced because the poets respected the raw material -- words -- enough to get out of the way to let the words speak for themselves. When the approach works, language becomes poetry by, in part, transcending the limits of the poets' conscious imaginations. Such has resulted from Anne Gorrick's A's Visuality which presents a section of poems translated from prior positionings as visual art and a second section of poems taking off from the found language of a website's description of paint colors. The first section, Folios, is rife with surfaced wisdom: "a map / as small as / astronauts" where guidance (map) is not the astronaut's limits (knowledge) but the astronauts' task (and desire) to explore or expand the limits of what's known. In the second section Chromatic Sweep, never has color become so palpable (at times even edible or radioactive): "when black and white mix, there is a lower sound" or "red play back our own choking." Gorrick trusted the words ("No editorial / preoccupied with") and their reciprocation are lush poems that thoughtfully invite. --Eileen Tabios"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609641825
• ISBN13: 9781609641825
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Blazevox Books
• Length: 120 Pages