In all, the Sonnets were a little difficult though I would say they are creative. To work within a structure, such as a sonnet, can be difficult. But Berrigan also takes some free license by altering the patterns of text, and sometimes not following a sonnet form at all. In all, the collection of sonnets and poems gives an artistic view of a timeline that a historical novel could not.
Elsewhere No.2 was confusing to read, as many have already mentioned. However, the found text from Gordon is interesting to be viewed as Sullivan shows us. As almost everyone does, I imagine stories as I read them and Elsewhere No.2 takes away the imagination from us.
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ReplyDeleteLike the first section of Berrigan's work, I was constantly bothered by the jumping around. I'm not a big fan of all this poetry that's either mixed up, scrambled,blacked-out, etc. So Berrigan's sonnets have been difficult for me to read without getting a bit of headache knowing that the poems only have small tidbits of meaning and don't tell a very dynamic story.
ReplyDeleteElsewhere No.2 was also strange, although I am a sucker for comic artwork. I noticed the repetition in Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy, and that everytime they depicted a man it was a more cartoony figure while the women were drawn with greater realism in mind. Maybe that was supposed to mean something. The text didn't really make any real sense to me. They didn't describe the scenes below them once again, leaving me without an actual story.
~Kent Benson