Incoming from DeVillo Sloan 06.20.13

I received a package filled with wit and wisdom....Every inch is a delight!

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Comment by De Villo Sloan on June 22, 2013 at 7:55am: Frank O'Hara has been discussed at IUOMA frequently and also among folks with similar affinities. "Sardines" is actually a real painting by Mike Goldberg. I always thought it was a fiction. For one of the most illuminating discussions on "Why I am not a Painter" in recent history, please see:

http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/frank-ohara-marie-wintzer-...

This includes work by x-IUOMA Marie Wintzer (aka Empress Marie Antonette) who recently, surprise!, wrote a poem entitled "Sardines."

WA, I am so glad you like "Sardine Oil." I hope Frank is smiling - somewhere.

Comment by WA Rodgers on June 22, 2013 at 2:06am: I love it, and I love it's origin/point of departure.... Frank O'Hara is an interesting guy....I loved that when he and Larry Rivers called it quits, Frank lived with Larry's mother, Birdy.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on June 21, 2013 at 11:34pm: Wen, I am glad it arrived. Thank you for posting.

Your asemic visual poem - "Sardine Oil for WA Rodgers - is not entirely random. It is based on Frank O'Hara's poem "Why I am not a painter":

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20422

In the poem is a discussion about a painting called "Sardines." That seems to me to be about what can happen during the process of composition - the unexpected. When I noticed the words "sardine oil" appeared in "Sardine Oil for WA Rodgers" on some found text, I knew I had to build what remained around Frank O'Hara.

Thanks again!

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