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May 4: Two works from Marton Koppany's Endgames today with a desecration of his second by guess-who:
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"The Secret" bowled me over. I love the things Marton can do with the most averbal textemes (like various kinds of brackets). But I had to desecrate it by merging it with another idea of Marton's, extending an idea across a frame. I feel a bit uneasy about doing this, although I've done it before, and Marton has been Very tolerant of what I've done. And I certainly don't feel I'm improving what he's done, just doing a secondary riff on it.
"The Principle of Gradience" is here because it was on the page facing "The Secret," so I captured it when scanning that. I liked it but felt it was "only" a cleverly captioned illumage when I first saw it. Later I saw the top of the exclamation point above it. Rather large dot under that top. . . . Anyway, the idea of a collection of steps, like the Eiffel Tower itself making a step up some gradient appeals strongly to me. At the same time, the image is making a step up the art gradient, that starts at accurate representationalism. At least of equal importance is the emotional step the poem, and it is a poem, reminds us that the Eiffel Tower, and similar specimens of architectural lyricism cause us to take, the emotional step into the sky!
Just about every piece in Endgame is at the level of these (although some I more extremely like, such as "The Secret," than others. When this book is available at Lulu, as it soon will be (for $25), you must order a copy!
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