A woman who thought she had reason to think • You have come in out of the shadow. • The room is full of conversations. • They are like eyes • They are out here only • They are going naked as day • Goodbye in good time to the body
Source: Bodily Presence: Words, Paintings, by W. H. Oliver and Anne Munz. Wellington: BlackBerry Press, 1993
Electronic source: Bodily Presence: a TEI-conformant transcription
All poems © W. H. Oliver
Bodily Presence
Words, Paintings, by W. H. Oliver and Anne Munz
Bodily Presence was a collaboration between W. H. Oliver and Wellington-based painter, Anne Munz, with each poem in the volume appearing opposite a painting. The titles of the paintings are recorded at the bottom of each poem. At the time of publication, the poet and painter commented:
W. H. Oliver: They were written in response to the paintings, not as a description, but in part as a comment and, more than that, as a parallel text.
Anne Munz: For me, painting is one way of stating the ambiguity of concrete objects.