Two terrific posts, Stephen. And good to See you, even head bent over
that erasing table....
Your mother is fascinating in both her takes on poems, & her own.
Doug
On 19-Jun-07, at 12:27 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> New at:
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
> Indigo Blue - Erasing Words With Ann Hamilton (Sculptor & Installation
> Artist) at San Francisco Museum of Art
>
> ...The installation has already been up for a few weeks, and the
> previous
> workers have erased several pages. For reasons unknown to me, the book
> is
> being erased from back to front - almost as if the process is to make
> us
> work backwards to the point of the books inception. Some of the pages
> are
> perforated with holes from workers who have been too aggressive. The
> assistant curator has sent out an in an email message warning up to be
> gentle with our strokes across the page. Indeed, the type on the pages
> is
> variously visible, but definitely unreadable...
>
> &
>
> Mom - Critic and Poet
>
> Friday evening I took to reading some poems to my mom - some Jack
> Spicer,
> Denise Levertov and Allen Ginsberg. Previously I have been astonished
> by
> some of the things she has had to say about pieces from Gertrude
> Stein’s
> Tender Buttons and poems in Kenneth Rextroth’s Love And The Turning
> Year:
> 100 More Poems From the Chinese. Her manner is to listen closely, and
> then,
> when I ask about the poems meaning, to make an authoritative take on
> her
> sense of what she has heard..
>
> Enjoy, and comments appreciated,
>
> Stephen Vincent
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
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