Word: formless
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...wrote Masefield in his poem Biography (1912). Earlier in his life, when the formless urge to write had driven the young apprentice seaman from the sea he loved into a Yonkers, N.Y. carpet factory, Masefield had taken an even gloomier view. "It was most unlikely," he despaired, "that I should ever be able to write anything which anyone would print...
...William Baziotes, 38, used titles too. His Mummy, a formless fungus floating in green scum, was rich and strange enough to stick in the mind's eye-whether one wanted it there or not. Baziotes' confections of molasses-sweet color and protoplasmic shapes are never planned in advance. "Each painting," he once explained, "comes about in a different way. Some are started with a few touches of color, others with lines. Sometimes nothing happens. I have to give up. But when the urge comes I work swiftly. When I am finished, the painting means something...