OK, this is cool. Poems by the great Modernist poet Wallace Stevens illustrated by contemporary artists. And more will be coming all week. Check the link. My favorite so far:Â Sean Michael Robinson’s graphic novel treatment of “Sunday Morning.” Such an interesting project! Recommended.
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Wallace Stevens: Illustrated!
Posted: Sunday, July 31, 2011 in Hybrid Literature, Recommended, Visual artTags: Wallace Stevens
The late, great David Foster Wallace on, um, actual, you know, READERS
Posted: Sunday, November 21, 2010 in Community, Fiction, Hybrid Literature, On WritingTags: Art of Fiction, Avant-garde, David Foster Wallace, Salon.com
If you… succumb to the idea that the audience is too stupid, then there are two pitfalls… the avant-garde pitfall, where you have the idea that you’re writing for other writers… (or) crass, cynical, commercial pieces… done in a formulaic way…
…these two sides both come out of the same thing… contempt for the reader… The project that’s worth trying is to do stuff that has some of the richness… of avant-garde literary stuff, stuff that makes the reader confront things rather than ignore them, but to do that… in a way that it’s also pleasurable to read.
– from Salon
