Thinking of Michal Williams, sitting
alone in the apartment, and reading these poems, I suddenly thought of another twentieth - century disaster - marriage, that of the great painter Stanley Spencer, whose visions of Christianity
led him to
paint the general resurrection in the small - town churchyard of Cookham, and whose Christ was a working - class Englishman of 1930s vintage.
Embedding layers of personal, political and artistic struggle, Judith Bernstein
painted the testosterone -
led landscape of our world using variations of penises, be it
painted, drawn, scrawled,
alone or in pairs.