A Reading of Thirty Things
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11327150 |
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| Authors | Robert Duncan (0000-0002-8949-8727, corresponding author), Mario Davidson (0000-0002-0638-7096), Michael Davidson (0000-0002-4698-1719), Michael Palmer (0000-0002-7015-1221) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 293 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/302626 |
| OpenAlex | W2326604552 |
| Language | EN |
After the daily calendar of Day Book and given a deliberate format in Robert Indiana's design for the cover, we might go on in the new work to read thirty as the number of days in a given month. And there is the feel of days going by in these poems even better, the feel of the calendar sheets tearing off and blowing away as in the conventional motion picture language. A wind/ blows steadily/ as we sit in an imaginary film would turn the calendar pages and stand for the passage of years. There is the feel of camera shots, a language of things seen in a sequence of frames, in the sequence of poems that unreel the book
Art · Linguistics · Reading (process · Sociology · Architecture, Design, and Social History · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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