Tag Archives: Jackson Pollock

Michael Brodsky’s “Invidicum” Part One

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Mark Kerstetter

I am at a loss how to begin a “review” of Michael Brodsky’s astonishing opus Invidicum (published by Tough Poets Press and illustrated by the great Michael Hafftka), not only because I’ve never read anything like it (apart, that is, … Continue reading →

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FOURTEEN: IN MY LIFE THE FURNITURE EATS ME (pages 38-45)

Posted on April 15, 2023 by Mark Kerstetter

We’re up to poem IX and as with VIII we’ll look at the prose section that follows and then go back and reread it. Allen Ginsberg gives a nice reading of this poem. But the poem is not as clear … Continue reading →

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A Woman in Front of a Pollock

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Mark Kerstetter

after Williams’ “A Woman in Front of a Bank” It’s not her fault my mind scoopsparabolas out of the curves of her waistinto arbitrary evocations—snakes out of a can—racing to the edgesof boxes everywhere,the field still a rectangle even if … Continue reading →

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What’s in Your Ego Tunnel?

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Mark Kerstetter

The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger is one of those books I should have read when it came out in 2009. But, like many of the books I read, I came to it by chance, in this case when a … Continue reading →

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