Head Holding

“Head Holding” by Carl Santoro
Review by Sam Rasnake Feb.26, 2014 Editor's Eye:
"The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti stands in shadow only behind Carl Santoro’s brief poem. “Head Holding” is laser-clear in its purpose: the nature of art. Readers encounter a stand-in for the artist – an everyman/everywoman directly at work – “the clay-filled thumbnail / hollowing out a new eye”. A new way of seeing, of understanding art. In the poem sculpting serves, at least for me, as the sum of all creative arts. As writers, painters, photographers, musicians, filmmakers, dancers – we all strive for, without reaching, the perfect moment. Our hands, eyes, feet, bodies fully at work in the art. That’s the journey. The arriving – though hoped for (“Giacometti would throw up”) – is never found.

More works by Santoro: “Blocked – A Facebook Tale – 13 – Baboquivari,” “IRON Meditations (thoughts while pressing a clean shirt for work),” and “The Yardsale is Over and the Rain is Falling and It Is Getting Dark”"