{"id":5018,"date":"2025-03-13T15:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/new\/?page_id=5018"},"modified":"2025-03-27T17:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:03:17","slug":"how-much-paint-does-the-painting-need","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/new\/index.php\/how-much-paint-does-the-painting-need\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Paint Does the Painting Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row content_placement=&#8221;bottom&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1741873638047{margin-top: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_69de652017c72{color:#000000;font-size:24px;font-weight:700;}<\/style><h1 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-text-balance wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-mb-0 vcex_69de652017c72\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">How Much Paint Does the Painting Need<\/span><\/h1><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_69de652018bcb{color:#000000;font-size:18px;font-weight:400;}<\/style><h2 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-text-balance wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-mb-20 vcex_69de652018bcb\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">1988, Kulchur Foundation<\/span><\/h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/9998980410\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=9998980410&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=httpwwwvladim-20\" class=\"vcex-button theme-button grey inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"vcex-button-inner theme-button-inner wpex-flex wpex-flex-wrap wpex-items-center wpex-justify-center\">Buy on Amazon<\/span><\/a> [vc_empty_space height=&#8221;50px&#8221;]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_69de6520198b2{color:#000000;font-size:24px;font-weight:700;}<\/style><h1 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-text-balance wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-mb-10 vcex_69de6520198b2\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Review by Marjorie Perloff<\/span><\/h1>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; bottom_margin=&#8221;0px&#8221; color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; font_size=&#8221;14px&#8221;]\n<p>In its uncompromising savagery, its passionate rejection of sentimentality, its black humor, and its sheer outrageousness, Rochelle Owens&#8217; lyric voice is unique among contemporary poets. As in the case of Futz and her other plays, the poems in this new collection hover on the edge of darkness; as in the plays, that edge is never crossed for the poet knows that even the most painful and ludicrous situation can be distanced by humor and understanding. Whether she is writing about the anthropologist she has met at a dinner party, about painters like Van Gogh or poets like T. S. Eliot, or about her own moments of anxiety and depression, Owens keeps experience in check by the tautness of her rhetoric and the economy of her language. 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