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On Art and Poetics

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

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The Plastic Poem

The most famous probably example of a big, drastic writing that gets taught is the shield of Achilles. It's not like there's some or shield, you know, that was being described as a poetic piece of art. Right. So at its very roots, I think that kind of descriptive visual descriptive writing has a degree of invention as part of it. Yeah. The visual object becomes a kind of catalyst or irritant. There's almost something arbitrary about it. But it's happened to be one that stuck with you. You wanted to say something about what Marjorie said that her relationship to the word 'plastic' in the sort of general sinking sensor. And I don't really

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