Visual Poetry. MALLEABLE CAST proposes a triple reading: the iconic, which must be seen, the verbal, which must be read, and the intermedia, which is always personal and must be felt. We cannot avoid the fact that the iconic and linguistic readings impose meanings on us, but the intermedia awakens unsuspected feelings that encourage us to exercise freedom and access knowledge more in tune with individual experience. The intermedia of Malleable Cast is a powerful fusion of images and words, a fusion which places it at the center of today's most important poetic research. -- Clemente Padin Do we learn anything--individually, collectively, generationally--from our experience? Spencer Selby poses this question repeatedly in these pages, letting verbal seepage and icon templates interact in a field of mutual constraint and meaning. The images here are never quite clich s, but are familiar, as if recollected from a generational pool of shared knowledge, while the synthetic language presses to return to the reader all the referen"
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