He was an agitator throughout his life for the causes in which he believed, political, social and poetical.

ECONOMIST: American poets

Reading a succession of lifestyle poems is a reminder that in this century the poetical image and the poetical epigram have had to compete with the photograph and the advertising slogan.

ECONOMIST: Encapsulating a century in verse

Explaining his ways of engaging with the body, Mr. Othoniel says he came of age, in the wake of the AIDS crisis, as not so much a "political" artist as a "poetical" artist "between poetic and politic, " said Mr. Othoniel.

WSJ: Jean-Michel Othoniel's Retrospective My Way in Brooklyn