I've been over at Ron Silliman's blog and was pleased to see a giant
mention of Stephen's 'WALKING THEORY'. It starts like this:
'Saturday afternoon, I came back from a long walk in Jenkins Arboretum
– it's azalea season here in Chester County & the arboretum is one of
the great azalea & shade gardens – brought in & opened the mail, then
lay on the couch with the three new books that had come that day &
promptly fell asleep. When I woke, refreshed by that rare (for me)
phenomenon of a mid-day nap, I thought to glance through the books &
opened Stephen Vincent's Walking Theory from Mark Weiss' Junction
Press. I started reading & just couldn't stop. It's not like Walking
Theory is a chapbook – it's 84 pages long – and for me reading
anything longer than a one-page broadside-brochure in a single sitting
is quite unusual. But Walking Theory is not a usual book. These are
the poems Stephen Vincent has been preparing to write his entire life.
They definitely pass the "take the top of your head off" test. I went
cover to cover without even sitting up. '
A good plug for Mark's Junction Press and for Stephen's book.
The blog is at http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ I am certain you
already have Stephen and Mark's addresses in your Inbox.
Androo
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