Response to Geof Huth Comment

Geof Huth wrote: The visual poet never sees the world, only the surface of the world, the shapes that lie upon it both hindering and aiding sight.

 
I respectfully disagree. The visual poet sees into and through(/with) the world (seizes the world), reflecting off and under and above objects, behind and below the flat edges of words, seizing surfaces (perhaps the primary planes of a visual poem’s expressive field), transmuting them. Visual poets see the world as more than surfaces, more than words. Sure, shapes hinder and aid and lie, sign getting in the way of signified, but words do too.