Ikon and Ekko

Suzan Sarı, "tatarsk" (2010)
The international visual poetry portfolio being loaded at the online magazine Peep/Show continues to grow, slowly, like flowstone, and it now includes a presentation of the work of Suzan Sarı, one of the many remarkable Turkish visual poets working today.

The pieces she has in Peep/Show are monumental black and white pieces, harsh almost, and not so much made out of letters as made out of images that appear symbolic or almost letteristic. Her pieces are dramatic icons, well crafted and designed, tending to the dirty, and rugged in their ability to withstand the wrathful gaze of critics wondering where the poetry is in these pieces.

It is everywhere. The poetry here is the mute poetry of visual poetry. The image given over to symbol without the easy intervention of conventional meaning. These are poems at the end of the road of poetry, poems created when there's no way left to make a conventional poem, poems written in no language and, thus, created for all of us, no matter where we live on the globe.

This talismanic pieces fill me with awe. I am overwhelmed by their order and their disorder, by their ability to live in two worlds at once. If I were a visual poet, these are works I would wish I could create.


Suzan Sarı, "dunya" (2010)
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