A Daily Glance
Paul Siegell's wild life rifle fire has been buzzing around in my head since I received it. It's a book that focuses very closely on individual words and parts of words. Sometimes there are two words on a page, but rarely are there over four. In a way, reading it feels like reading bits and pieces of a billboard. Some of these are classic vispo pieces, but some border on pop language poems. Some of the poems talk across the page to each other, but other seem unrelated. It fascinating because each page can be focused on and discussed. For example, the first page says, "ZOO /M IN." Is it telling us to zoom in on language for the book or to zoom in to language to see how it works? Is it rather telling us that the book is a zoo, a personal zoo that perhaps is constructed out of pop language?
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