Ways of Seeing meets Mary Ruefle in these visual-art-inflected poems Though they started from Sheryda Warrener's impulse to see herself more clearly, the poems in Test Piece ended up becoming more expansive meditations on seeing and vision. They engage with the process and practice of art-making, and specifically with abstract minimalist works like those by Eva Hesse, Anne Truitt, Ruth Asawa, and Agnes Martin. Not-seeing/not-knowing is a motif, as is weave, grid, pattern, rhythm of interiors, domestic life. These poems are informed by collage, by the act of bringing images and lines together. With their echoes and reverberations (hand, mirror, body, clear, form, face), a greater complexity is revealed.

Book Information
ISBN 9781552454497
Author Sheryda Warrener
Format Paperback
Page Count 72
Imprint Coach House Books
Publisher Coach House Books
Weight(grams) 127g