selected
blurbs:
"...strong, impressive work..." -Chris
Fischbach
"John Vieira's
work is such a blur—lyric meditation, b&w photographs, yogic
drawing and concrete gesture...—it's as clear, as
trans/parent as work can be..." -Crag Hill, Crag Hill's poetry
scorecard (February 12, 2005)
"[Vieira's]
poems are some of the best I see in my opinion and in that of my readers."
-Phyllis Walsh (editor, Hummingbird: Magazine of the Short Poem)
"There is much I admire
in [Vieira's] work...I particularly enjoy the synthesis of the visual and the
lyric." -Beth Joselow
"...a remarkable body of
work." -John Martone
about
"Ecstatic Writing: An Appeal for the Reclamation of Poetry":
"...terrifically
interesting..." -Robert Bly
"...of great
importance..." -Paul B. Roth
about
For [Da]:
"Vieira greatly adds to
and deepens the project with his series of visual poems based upon Da....
The work for me is a meditation on the term, a mantra visually represented in
act of creation, permutation and integration...a directly implied universe."
-Karl Kempton, TapRoot Reviews (#9/10)
about Points on a Hazard Map:
"Lyric poetry at times visual, at times
infra-verbal, about 'ignorance
whitened' and much else." -Bob
Grumman
about
Rainfall Data at Ocala:
"I like Rainfall Data....
Seldom know how to talk about poems. 'Hamlet's story as retold by Mr.
Shakespeare is deeply moving.'" -Robert Lax
"A good person, soul....
The drawings are a perfect complement to the work.... Simple and eye-friendly
and of a piece with the poems." -Cid Corman
"...a magnificent
work!" -Susan Smith Nash
about Slow Moving Pictures:
"Emphatically,
yes. Slow Moving Pictures are delightful. It was love at first
sight." -Crag Hill
about A Songbird in Igor's Yard:
"A
prime collection of visual poems and related artworks.... There is much to
meditate on/from throughout Vieira's collection." -Bob Grumman, TapRoot
Reviews (#7/8)
about "sublunar
canto":
"John Vieira's SUBLUNAR
CANTO is a poem that deserves to be re-read and savoured, even when it isn't
entirely clear in meaning it is still beautiful." -Juliet Wilson, NEW
HOPE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW (U.K., June 2005)
about "the sky
is a blue tarp":
"...a sad,
stark vision of the dead with nowhere to go." -Samantha Henderson, MultiVerse
(2006)
about "World View” (8-set tanka):
"The short poem is a
mantra, John Vieira says.... Readers new to Vieira should know that sometimes
there is even less than the mantra.... John is also a calligrapher, his visual
texts depicting Nothing at all. Anyone who has seen these drawings lingers over
them in delight. But I am especially glad for his words here—their limpidezza...."
-John Martone, Hummingbird: Magazine of the Short Poem (September 1996)
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