ZYX, out of Bayside, NY, and spearheaded by Arnold Skemer, gave a kind review of Portraits by B.Z. Niditch:
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Review:
PORTRAITS, B.Z. Niditch, Propaganda Press (Alternating Current, P.O. Box 398058, Cambridge, MA 02139) $6.00 52 pp., 4 1/4 X 5 1/2, saddle stapled, 2008. There is something
about extreme concision, the summing up of the style of an artist, his world view, in a few spare lines. This is what Niditch attempts in Portraits. Examples:
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Presumably these are artists [whom] have carved a place in Niditch's psyche. He knows them well and thinks about them deeply to the extent that micro verbal intensity results. This is something that we all might delve into, creating a verbal distillation for all those artists whose spirit has sunk into our mindset and become a part of us, a discipline of exacting description, a precision that defines our own tastes and inclinations and intimate intellectual desires.
Kindly note that Alternating Current prints/publishes mini-poetry chapbooks, starting at $90.00 for 50 copies. According to their statements[,] they also publish in the normal pattern. Most authors pay nothing up front and "pay only an author price for however many copies they want to purchase. We distribute, they get a royalty[...]" Their website is: alt-current.com.
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Review:
PORTRAITS, B.Z. Niditch, Propaganda Press (Alternating Current, P.O. Box 398058, Cambridge, MA 02139) $6.00 52 pp., 4 1/4 X 5 1/2, saddle stapled, 2008. There is something
about extreme concision, the summing up of the style of an artist, his world view, in a few spare lines. This is what Niditch attempts in Portraits. Examples:Breton
Caressing night arms
with yellow umbrellas
by beach trees
dreams half speak
or
Mishima
You left a skeleton
over abrupt lives,
uncovering a canvas
of poetic skulls
tattoos, butterfly;
a man's bloody stone face.
Presumably these are artists [whom] have carved a place in Niditch's psyche. He knows them well and thinks about them deeply to the extent that micro verbal intensity results. This is something that we all might delve into, creating a verbal distillation for all those artists whose spirit has sunk into our mindset and become a part of us, a discipline of exacting description, a precision that defines our own tastes and inclinations and intimate intellectual desires.
Kindly note that Alternating Current prints/publishes mini-poetry chapbooks, starting at $90.00 for 50 copies. According to their statements[,] they also publish in the normal pattern. Most authors pay nothing up front and "pay only an author price for however many copies they want to purchase. We distribute, they get a royalty[...]" Their website is: alt-current.com.
End Of Review
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