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Richard Serra, Verb List Compilation - Actions to Relate to Oneself (1967 - 1968)
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Jules Olitski, Arnolfini Baby
“There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn’t go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because no-one is looking, the habit of fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained” Jules Olitski
Today’s mini feature - Men Who Write…
Ted Hughes - Aug. 17, 1930 - 1998 - a fine poet.
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The Thought-Fox
I imagine this midnight moment’s forest:
Something else is alive
Beside the clock’s loneliness
And this blank page where my fingers move.
Through the window I see no star:
Something more near
Though deeper within darkness
Is entering the loneliness:
Cold, delicately as the dark snow
A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now
Sets neat prints into the snow
Between trees, and warily a lame
Shadow lags by stump and in hollow
Of a body that is bold to come
Across clearings, an eye,
A widening deepening greenness,
Brilliantly, concentratedly,
Coming about its own business
Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox
It enters the dark hole of the head.
The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
The page is printed.(Photo: Fay Godwin, 1971 - bromide print, NPG, Londo)
