Mr O'Loughlin's one and only volume of abstract poems can be read (in the main) like an ordinary or mainstream volume of free verse, except that the verse is somewhat freer - and possibly lighter - than would normally qualify for poetry of that ilk. Nevertheless we believe it stops well short of being 'word art', even if some people might regard it as degenerate verse and therefore subversive of poetry, as normally understood by that term.
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By John O'Loughlin
Aug 19, 2011
"ABSTRACTS" This collection of so-called abstract poems has attracted more attention on the Internet than Mr. O'Loughlin would have expected, being of a style of abstraction that is readerly, or at any rate can be read, rather than non-readerly and therefore purely contemplative. Not very much of it makes any sense, but, then again, that is precisely the point of the exercise: to avoid all or as much sense as possible, to the end of transcending not only meaning but grammatical determinism. In that respect, this project succeeds very neatly.
