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Ocupation: Poet

Life: b. June 5, 1950

Birthday: June 5

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We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, codes of authenticity, codes of certain kinds of emotion.

Topics: Way, Sentimental, Emotion

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You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?

source: - John Yau (2002). “Borrowed Love Poems”, p.31, Penguin

Topics: Eye, Men, Thinking

What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, or Donald Judd, for example - like a caboose? I am not talking about engaging directly with another artist's work or ideas, but of perpetuating a look or, in the case of Wade Guyton, the various monochromatic, striped and geometric surfaces we associate with Minimalism.

Topics: Mean, Artist, Talking, Stella, Monochromatic

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.

source: - John Yau (1989). “Radiant Silhouette: New & Selected Work, 1974-1988”, p.81, David R. Godine Publisher

Topics: Writing, Stories, Half, Half The Story

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