Thanks so much, Tony, for adding your thoughts to the thread. I was thinking about sending you an invite via PM, but I'm glad you found your way here to enlighten and inform.
I feel like a doofus for never having thought of the Wheelbarrow poem as formal, and I thank you for setting me straight.
I am keenly interested in reading the Measure article.
I'd also like to put in a plug for
this book, which I believe I've mentioned before on the Sphere.
Edited in:
It would be remiss at this point not to include this brilliant poem in this thread:
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring
a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry
of the year was
awake tingling
near
the edge of the sea
concerned
with itself
sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings’ wax
unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning
Link to painting
Good reading