Thank you, Doug. Yes, my mom is due to come home on Monday, and doing well. Yesterday I asked her if she was up for returning to the "body politic" (she was once a very active, public politician), she replied, "No, I quit. They don't need me anymore." At 92, I guess you have your rights to do or not.
Stephen V
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Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 'nothing' and everything, Stephen; they're terrific, those haptics.
And the Rauschenberg window, too...
Hope your mother is back out of the hospital...
Doug
On 2-May-08, at 12:01 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> In association with making a recent "haptic" drawing, I listened to
> John O'Keefe's wonderful recent performance adaptation of Walt
> Whitman's Song of Myself. It was a presentation last summer here
> at the Marsh in San Francisco, filmed by William Farley, and just
> released on as DVD, (Go to www.farleyfilm.com for an exerpt and
> ordering details). O'Keefe's voices achieves a robust, sensual and
> ecstatic relationship with the original text and brings, at least,
> his sense of the man, quite to life. A real delight
>
> I am naive to much critical work on Whitman. However, listening to
> the poet's spirited sense of intimacy of eye and ear for the streets
> of his Manhattan (folks et al), it's impossible not to make
> connections with Frank O'Hara's work on that island approximately a
> hundred years later. I cannot imaging that O'Hara was not imbued by
> this work.
>
> Oh, if you want to see the drawing go to my blog (below my short
> riff on Rashenberg/Raushenberg Erased
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> For the drawing In addition to O'Keefe's Whitman, I was also
> listening to Ornette Coleman's Meta Body. I also imagine a
> relationship between Ornette's sense poly-expansiveness in rhythms
> and idioms and Whitman. But that's an idea for another day. Of
> course, you can look at the "haptic" and see nothing to do with any
> of the above compadres.
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> Stephen
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