painter’s palette

A visual poet’s control of the visual and non-verbal aspects of a visual poem.
(Personally, I control the painter’s palette by limiting it. I almost always use
only primary and secondary colors—and I prefer primary colors.) (Robert
Indiana, known primarily as a painter, is a good example of the type of visual
poet most in control of the painter’s palette.) (If a poem is visually
uncompelling, if it hides its beauty from us, then the painter’s palette is the
source of the trouble.) (His masterpiece, “Io and the Ox-eye Daisy” exhibits a
great amount of skill combining the printer’s fist and the painter’s palette
into effective instances of the poet’s pen in action; this poem is fully visual
and fully verbal, a delight for the eye, ear, and mind.)