Dispersed among some ten poems celebrating the nubiferous paintings of Arthur Dove (1880-1946)) are another forty (also nubiferous) poems by Lynne Potts. I believe this transcendent duplicity requires some prompting about Dove's pictures which are among the earliest abstract works painted in this country. Dove and his second wife Helen Torr lived on a river boat in eastern NY, where their aim was to discover the exact color and form or motif to represent the essence of the object painted. Hence Helen's countless questions ("How does one capture the soma of the sea? / Watch until transparency...
Dispersed among some ten poems celebrating the nubiferous paintings of Arthur Dove (1880-1946)) are another forty (also nubiferous) poems by Lynne Pot...
Craft-savvy and intelligent, Lynne Potts displays a deft lyrical hand in The Relentless Pronoun. Her ability to inject fresh language through beautiful imagery, as well as her natural ear for musicality, shows her appreciation for the subtlety of craft. Perfect rhythmic control reinforces her keen grasp on how two images put together in succession instantly creates meaning. Strings of concrete scenes tell a tale of the greater whole, as she ruminates upon images that seize, moments that claim, in the transformation of memory. Rich rural settings draw the reader into lush...
Craft-savvy and intelligent, Lynne Potts displays a deft lyrical hand in The Relentless Pronoun. Her ability to inject fresh language thro...
