Two Sequences / Barry Schwabsky

Two Sequences by Barry Schwabsky 20 pages Published in a numbered edition of 100 copies Cover images by Carol Szymanski   "...no, death is not the saddest story of all but fear, the best stone to build with and where can I get some more at least asleep we might be innocent   one must risk everything, since we know how it is to accumulate that acrid smell of burnt ideas weather's getting so dangerous"      Barry Schwabsky is art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum. Of his recently published fourth book of poetry, Feelings of And (Black Square Editions, 2022), Richard Hell says, "the poems seem to yield to poetry rather than trying to snare or create it--poetry inundates and the reader is like a component drifting though." His most recent book of art criticism is The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting (Sternberg Press, 2019) and he has also contributed to many books and catalogues on modern and contemporary artists including Alex Katz, Dana S