> Stephen, did you know you can go online & order clothing labels? My wife is
> a knitter & when she finishes a sweater of something, she puts her label
> into it. I wonder if you could get one just big enough to put a tiny poem
> on?
Good idea.
Right now just pushing on my new book, "the full label".
Thanks,
Stephen V
Walking Theory ifrom Junction Press (84 pages, $12)
For convenient electronic ordering information, go to:
www.junctionpress.com
Order directly from me <[log in to unmask]> if you want a signed copy!
... these are the poems Stephen Vincent has been preparing to write his
entire life. They definitely pass the ³take the top of your head off² test.
I went cover to cover without even sitting up. Ron Silliman, Sillimanıs
Blog, http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ Go down to May 15, 2007
At long last is Walking Theory, Stephen Vincentıs observant, large-hearted
poems bundled into book form, engaging architecture, people on the move, the
seasons and other transience, the talk that binds the day: Goodbye,
rhetoric, the desperate,/what can the poem do, walking, step-by-step:/
witness, suffer, hope. Urbane and companionable, rare virtues flaunted here,
curbside delight. Bill Berkson
Stephen Vincent's work here preserves and enhances the ancient association
of the foot as measure of the poetic line. In Walking Theory measure becomes
metaphor: ³...foot ever to the ground, image by image, /thought by thought,
word by word...² This is the measure of the continuity of a poetıs life as
he moves through the days, from the grief-stricken rhythms of the opening
section of elegies to the more expansive tours of the San Francisco
neighborhoods where he lives and works. Vincent celebrates the beauty of
these familiar landscapes, as well as strange, unexpected and sometimes
mundane details. In a wonderful pun that arises in the midst of the naming
of spring flowers, ³the dotted eye² suggests the I of linguistic convention
as the seeing, moving bodyıs eye transformed by language. Finally, in this
serious play of words, the poets asks: ³what can the poem do, walking,
step-by step:² and credo-like responds: ³witness, suffer, hope.² Beverly
Dahlen
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> jd
>
> On 6/13/07, Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> The friend who was at this workshop was tickled pink, and kept her phrase
>> on
>> her sweater for months before she finally unpicked it.
>>
>> joanna
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:25 PM
>> Subject: Re: Bill Gates funds research into 'red verse'
>>
>>
>>>> I heard about a workshop he ran a while back, in which people had to
>>>> write
>>>> or paint or embroider words onto pieces of fabric, which they then cut
>>>> out
>>>> and sewed to the backs of other people's clothes, without showing them
>>>> first. So you walked around for the rest of the day, if you were brave
>>>> enough, with an unknown phrase etc on your back.
>>> Sounds like possibly an interesting exercise in human trust, and
>> depending
>>> on the phrase, imagination. Malevolence does not seem to be at the
>> heart
>>> of
>>> the exercise, in any case. Participating, and the mystery of the kind of
>>> public exposure you are providing others with words that you have not
>>> seen,
>>> I am sure takes some bravery. As say different from wearing designer
>> label
>>> clothes that function as advertisements for others. I once had a dream
>> of
>>> a
>>> garment manufacturer that put "poetry" as a tag on the shirts and
>> clothes,
>>> where one would normally find, say, the "Levis" label.
>>> I still think it's a pretty good idea!
>>>
>>> Stephen V
>>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>> Currently home of the unauthorized Sol Lewitt Memorial Site (Sight)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rather reminds me of Valerie Laws' Quantum Sheep, where she
>> spray-painted
>>>> a
>>>> letter or two onto the back of each sheep in a small flock, and noted
>>>> down
>>>> the combinations as they moved about the field -- that must have been
>>>> much
>>>> the same from the sheep's point of view.
>>>>
>>>> There are some interesting ideas blowing about in this north-east air
>>>> .....
>>>>
>>>> joanna
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Peter Cudmore" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:04 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Bill Gates funds research into 'red verse'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> A lot of Alec's work seems to be very visual -- did he train as a
>>>>>> artist, do you know?
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know, I'm afraid. I wouldn't be surprised, though would
>> suspect
>>>>> something more like a combined art history/literature course of the
>> kind
>>>>> Edinburgh U runs.
>>>>>
>>>>>> He runs a small press called Morning Star -- Alec, I mean, not the
>> dog.
>>>>> Has
>>>>>> this anything to do, I wonder, with the Communist daily paper of that
>>>>> name?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd never thought about it, I guess I assumed it was a nautical
>>>>> reference --
>>>>> Stella Maris, that kind of thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> P
>>>>>
>>
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