11/11

In this second section of Jackson Maclow’s “Thing of Beauty”, he begins to relate back more to his older work it seems. Just as in his cubist poems, repetition was a huge part of his work and in this piece he repeats and switches the placing of the words around creating “different” sentences and meanings with the same exact words. Even though both sets of his work are considered poetry this piece follows much more of a story like form. As I read this piece I started to question if I’m reading the correct pieces because of the great variety. It amazes me that you can go from a crazy and ridiculously lengthy section about a cat to something as erotic and sensual as the story of the man and the Turkish woman. The variety in the work is incredibly drastic and unpredictable of what the next subject will be.