When I approach experimental poetry, particularly when it's related to images - the ekphrastic relationship - I ask myself, does it work? By that I mean, does it carry off the symbiotic closeness, does it make me feel there's a strong reason why the two art forms feed off each other? In the case of Lucy Hamilton's Viewer / Viewed, the answer is a resounding Yes. First, the images: photomontages of close family members are transposed with each other,...
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