Elegy for Sol LeWitt
by
Ann Lauterbach
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Elegy for Sol LeWitt
The weather map today is pale. The lines on the map are
like the casts of fishing lines
looping and curved briefly across air.
The sky now, also, toward evening, is pale.
On Sunday, in Beacon, there were lines
drawn on walls and also lines
drawn across the canvases of the last paintings
of Agnes Martin. One of them has two pale squares on a
blackened field.
The lines on your walls follows directions
Continued …..
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Elegy for Sol LeWitt
as if as if there were a kind of logic
charged with motion
at the end of winter: the pale blue northern cold
almost merged with the pale green
at Hartford, and then the blank newsprint of the sea.
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Ann Lauterbach
Ann Lauterbach was born and raised in New
York City. After graduating from the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, she
attended Columbia University on a Woodrow
Wilson Fellowship. She moved to London
before completing her M.A. in English
Literature.
Lauterbach is the author of several poetry
collections, including O r to B egin Again
(Penguin, 2009), which takes its name from
a sixteen-poem elegy, and is inspired by
both Lewis Carroll's Alice and T. S. Eliot's The
Wasteland. She is also the author of Hum
(2005), If in Time: S elected P oems 1975-2000
(2001), O n a S tair (1997), And for E xample
(1994), C lamor (1991), Before R ecollection
(1987), and Many Times, but Then (1979), as
well as a book of essays, The Night S ky:
Writings on the P oetics of E xperience.
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is to widen the attention of individuals and
the media—to the art of poetry, to living
poets, to our complex poetic heritage, and to
poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic
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