Eratio

Issue 22

 

 

 

Kuhn’s Nude, Duchamp’s Paradigm

 

Mark Young

 

 

 

 

There are

     passages of time

          that redefine the way

               we see the world. No

                    one particular moment,

                         though somewhere within

                              must be a turning point.

                                   Rather action / reaction,

                                in a frame by frame

                             process, an incremental

                                  transition, much as in

                                       that painting by Duchamp

                                            where the nude descends

                                                 a staircase, step by step,

                                                        each step depicted,

                                                     each bringing with it

                                                  all the ones before.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Young is the editor of the online review, Otoliths.  He lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia and has been publishing poetry for more than fifty-five years.  His work has been widely anthologized and his essays and poetry have been translated into a number of languages.  He is the author of over thirty books, primarily poetry but also including speculative fiction and art history.  A new collection of poems, Bandicoot habitat, is out from gradient books of Finland. 

 

 


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