WALL TEXTS
Whether from boredom with the slim and often hermetic volumes they produce for a minority public or from a respectable desire for multiple income streams, one of the major concerns of contemporary poets is to work “off the page”—to see their verses printed on banknotes, displayed in the subway or stencilled on sidewalks, to write operatic librettos, to engage in slam poetry, etc. Wall Texts—a selection of poems from my collection Pathological Lyre—literally takes poetry off the page, enlarges it, and places it on the wall, thereby creating a kind of enforced reading for the viewer. As the title suggests, it humorously references the explanatory texts that often accompany contemporary art. Whether the Wall Texts themselves require a wall text is another matter.
