Further Adventures in Monochrome

See my review of Mr. Yau's "Borrowed Love Poems". I bought this book because I thought it was related to Mr. Yau's art criticism (he is also an art critic) and it is, but in an oblique way. As Bruce Conner says about "Borrowed Love Poems" "this is a swell book of poem even if they don't rhyme.".Another reviewer likens reading these poems to the experience you get from a John Cage piece...fragmentary, not easy to summarize, questionable as art...all things I happen to like...in other words, random. The best thing I can say about these poems is that reading them will not make you one bit better as a person.

This is a great book. John Yau is playful with his wording and has a lot of fun with the narrative.

Yau's poems are pleasing to all the senses. Language play of the highest order. I love a poet who teaches me something -- John Yau's encyclopedic and very personal knowledge of modern art and literature is woven through these poems: is, in a way, the glue that holds them together. I keep a laptop handy so I can Google names and words unfamiliar to me. Best of all, Yau is coming to my town, Eugene, Oregon, on May 18 to teach a workshop and he will read on May 20 at the Eugene Library. Check out [...]

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