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"Poets and book designers should stay away for at least the next five years from cover images by:
Mark Rothko
Vincent Van Gogh
Jackson Pollock
Barnett Newman
and Jan Vermeer
I thought that rule would go without saying until I saw more than one serious, thoughtful new poetry book this year that violated it."
- poet and poetry critic Steve Burt
Do you agree? Would you add to this list?
Image of Rothko's No. 3, 1949 can be found here; real painting can be found in nyc, here.
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
Good point--but why not name the guilty parties?
Posted by: JRSM | July 30, 2009 at 07:42 PM
Prohibitions tend to arouse a thirst for the forbidden beverage.
Posted by: DL | July 30, 2009 at 11:25 PM