i g I the perfect place i g for exquisite coffee, relaxing and studying with friends 9 I | Mon -Sat I 7 a.m.-11:30p.m. Sun noon-11:30pm 1324 "P" Street Writings reflect life s issues Poet recalls childhood influences By John A. Skretta Staff Reporter Poet Stanley Plumly has said that he has become his own parent by being able to arrange time. He dis played the art of rearranging time and reordering experience through a se lection of his poetry, read to a crowd Monday night in the Nebraska Un ion’s Regency Suite. Plumly, the author of several vol umes of verse spanning twenty years, read “mostly new poems.” He began with “The Art of Po etry,” which proposes that the poet offers “no apologies/no explanations,” but merely has the desire and will power to get it down right the first time. Much of Plumly’s poeiry is influ enced by his youth experiences in the Ohio fanning region. Most of his earlier poetry evokes the father-son relation ship as a consistent metaphor in the poet’s struggle to interpret life and death. Plumly also read about his mother. Or, more specifically, about his mother’s feet. “She (my mother) grew up in the Depression, and the standing meta -44 --; Attempts to make something whole of disparate and difficult parts of my experience. Stanley Plumly, on why he writes poetry phor. . . was her shoes, and the fact that she could never find a pair to fit her,” he said. “Her feet looked like part of the animal kingdom.” Plumly’s childhood fascination with his mother’s cramped feet gave rise to “My Mother’s Feet,” a poem that relates the pam of the mother to the child’s need to find security and warmth in the mother. Plumly said that as he’s aged, he’s become more interested in the anima tion of inanimate objects. His poem, “One-Legged Wooden Red-Wing,” explored that. The poem was inspired by a woodcarving of a blackbird given to him and develops a metaphorical relationship between the “always alone, always... male display” of the whittled blackbird to the whittling hobby of Ulysses Grant and Grant’s ability to compose written orders in the heal of battle and shower of death. w w Similarly, “Reading With The Poets,” was inspired by a visit to a memorial Civil War cemetery and the history of the cemetery. The poem moves quickly beyond a dry histori cal account, however, into a proposal of the poet as a healer, or rather, would-be healer. Plumly’s poetry is infused with a humanistic spirituality and a brood ing philosophy that refuses to turn away from the finality ot death. “Lazarus at Dawn” is inspired by Plumly’s Quaker upbringing and spiri tual probing. “As one gets older,” he said, “one doesn’texactly ‘get religion,’ but one begins to realize that the body is a vessel. What for, however, is an open question, and whether that vessel is going in any direction or is merely moving on a treadmill is a compli cated philosophical issue.” Lazarus at uawn sj.»c° New Balance Values to $65.00 *34 ONE DAY ONLY! NEBRASKA STATE II Friday, FAIRGROUNDS MARCH 8TH PYPOIRLDG 10:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. LINCOLN ■ Art Continued from Page 9 The call from CBS was a surprise to Marxhausen, who had sent the network a demo tape live years ago. But Marxhausen said he has always been a person who “pushes buttons” and makes things happen. During World War II, Marxhausen, who was stationed in the Philippines, sold pieces of Japanese airplane wings made into jewelry to fellow soldiers. “While everyone else was getting drunk, I was making money,” he said. Marxhausen said his creative abilities can be traced back to his boyhood days in Minnesota. At the age of 69, Marxhausen still spends his days creating. He produces, packages and mails his art without the help of any appren tices. Incoming mail also sparks the artist’s attention. Since Marxhausen does not advertise, his only promo tion is by word-of-mouth. Marxhausen said he receives many letters from admirers of his art, including relatives of AIDS patients, elderly people in rest homes and others with serious illnesses. Marxhausen hopes now that his art can help people suffering from another kind of illness — chemical addiction. He currently is experimenting with detoxification centers to find out what effect his sound sculptures have on drug addicts. Marxhausen said he first wanted to duplicate the high that drug users experience, but now his objective is to give people energy and make them feel good without drugs. Marxhausen said other forms of sound art cannot be experienced in the same way his can. Other forms include electronics and “hanging junk from the ceiling,” he said. Three pieces of Marxhausen’s art I can be found in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Art Shop. Star Dust sells for S95, Cosmic Cubes for $500 and Parachimes for S325. Sheldon assemblage exhibit composed of humble objects From Staff Reports An art exhibit composed of frames, wire, door knobs and nails is now on display at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. “Findings: Assemblages By Fu miyo Kaneko” is the fourth exhibit in Sheldon’s ongoing Solo series. Kaneko’s an invites viewers to see the everyday world with a new appre ciation for humble objects, said Daphne Deeds, Sheldon curator and assistant director. Traditionally, assemblages were used to make political and philosophi cal statements. Deeds said tnat his torically, this art form is associated with other forms such as Dada, Surre alism and funk sculpture. Assemblage now is more familiar and more easily understood. In the 80 years since as semblages first emerged, it has evolved into a means of expressing life, Deeds said. 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