from The Birth of Detachment (Jennifer Ley)

Cezanne:

Gauguin went a long way to paint a view
I can see each day out my studio window,
as the brush of light catches the distant
foothills of Sainte-Victoire, stacking them in
rounded mounds towards the sky.
Foreground? A small piece of the man-made,
rigid and boxed, provides counterpoint
for my constant attempts to pin this mountain
to my canvas, map my search for summits.

 

The Birth of Detachment is "a meditation on how criticism affects art appreciation" (from the author's postscript). With images prepared by Mark Harden and borrowed text from Meyer Schapiro's "Modern Art," in addition to "imagined diary entries penned by Cezanne and some of his contemporaries." (28 pages, b/w, side-stapled) Founder of the internet literary magazine Riding the Meridian
and the award winning hypertext poetry site The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks, Jennifer Ley develops her newest work in the field of hypertext and hypermedia. Examples can be found on the web in the April Feature and the Valentine Files at the Electronic Poetry Center, in the web journals Cauldron and Net, frAme4, The Animist, Snakeskin, and Conspire, and in the trAce anthology, My Millennium. Her web works have been exhibited at Digital Arts and Culture '99, at the Wednesdays at 4 readings series at SUNY-Buffalo, the SIGGRAPH 2000 Art Gallery, the Ink.ubation Salon sponsored by the trAce online writing community, and at digital conferences planned this year in South Africa and Eastern Europe.

A 1998 Pushcart nominee for her text poetry, Ley has had earlier work anthologized on the Internet at Poetry Cafe and published in a variety of print publications. She is a founding member of the Internet Literary Editor's Fellowship -- ILEF -- and a member of the Literary Advisory Committee for the Electronic Literature Organization.