Carmen Anzano, Artist

This site is of no use to anyone other than me; that’s why I write it.

The WC Williams poem ‘This Is Just To Say’ was written about the same time as Ezra Pound was writing, ‘Poetry must be as well written as prose.’  I could spend all morning and well into the afternoon writing about Williams’ poem and Pound’s statement, as I write slowly these days, but I won’t; I’ll let Williams’s poem go, as it’s just right the way it is. Pound’s statement however is a different matter, a statement that has pestered me for some time for its obviousness, its obsequiously challenging tone that’s sounds so much like Pound that it couldn’t have been written by anyone else other than a high school English teacher in Wyoming with literary aspirations. Pound, however, wrote it in Europe where he’d gone to escape everything American.

As previously stated, this site is of no use to anyone other than me.

I’ve set myself the task of learning about and looking at the work of one new artist a day, an artist previously unknown to me, a visual artist. The artist of the day is the Spaniard, Carmen Anzano.

I realized this morning, rather re-realized, that writing a poem is like going around the house looking for your iPhone and not finding it, only finding it when you remember you’d plugged it into the wall of another room this morning for re-charging.

American Politics, I must have it! It’s become such an entertainment that I don’t think I can live without the news. The political news can’t happen fast enough. I can hardly wait for 5pm or 6 pm when the national news networks are firing on all cylinders, and the shock and dismay and banter of the anchorperson’s harmonize, full of highlights and mass murders.

Divided we stand, United, we fall.

But let’s go on, we must go on, GO-ON. org.