January 11th, 2009
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RUTH BAVETTA: “I’ve been a visual artist longer than I’ve been a poet. For years I tried to find a way to integrate my art and my words. It wasn’t until 2005 that they came together when I started to work on the pages of old books, mostly with watercolors and inks, carving poems from the text that I found there.”
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–from Rattle #29, Summer 2008
Tribute to Visual Poetry
[...] Travis MacDonald’s The O Mission Repo, which uses an “erasure” technique (think Ruth Bavetta’s VisPo, minus the art), to carve the weighty 9/11 Commission Report into ingestible poetry. But it’s [...]
Shake, RATTLE and Roll! Keep the Bavetta art, visual and verbal, coming! Great work.
-dR
Beautiful. Inspired. Thanks, Ruth.
Ruth – I’m a year and a h alf late with this, but I finally saw your name (if not your message, because I’m not a member) on Classmates.com. Forgive my tardiness! It was great to know you had posted a greeting for me. I googled you and just found this site, and am looking forward to viewing your visual poems. My web site is still a work in progress at a relatively early state, but I listed it above anyway.
thanks for leaving me a greeting, and so sorry I didn’t see it for this past year and a half. let me know how you’re doing?
Jennie (Link) Bower
exquisite, beautiful, work.