Less.Less Ted Washington Puna puna (p  `nä), high plateau region, 12,000 to 16,000 ft (3,658–4,877 m) high, between ridges of the Andes in Peru and Bolivia. Arid, cold, and in general, covered by short coarse grass, the puna has, nevertheless, long supported an Native American population. Press PO Box 7790, Ocean Beach, CA 92167 0964436620 $30.00 www.punapress.com Ted Washington won the SOHO International Art Competition, Best in Show and Most Promising New Artist of the 20th La Quina Arts Festival and is a founding member of the performances art group Pruitt Igoe. With the publication of Less, the general public now has an opportunity to see a multi-gifted, multi-faceted artist work with words as effectively as he has worked with images drawn with the usual tools of the sketch artist and painter. Indeed, abstract, black-and- white portraits of the human face are juxtaposed with lines of poetry throughout Less, providing readers with a kind of counterpoint counterpoint, in music, the art of combining melodies each of which is independent though forming part of a homogeneous texture. The term derives from the Latin for "point against point," meaning note against note in referring to the notation of plainsong. The academic study of counterpoint was long based on Gradus ad Parnassum (1725, tr. 1943) by Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741), an Austrian theorist and composer. of images both surreal and lyrical. Striving for Peace/is anti-nature/there must be strife/struggle and war/the price of life/will be paid/in chaos/nothing lives purely at rest |
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