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1. Fanny Howe at the San Francisco State Poetry Center, haptic drawings included:
...Fanny’s George Oppen Memorial lecture - taking a view into the history of the War’s impact - religious and philosophical - sought to put a name on that invisible, undefinable childhood space in which the family became divided and, in her case, the connection across the Atlantic to and with the world of Europe was so damaged. That paraphrase probably makes it too simple. In concrete terms, she used the occasion of the lecture to explore the relationship of the work of Simon Weil (essayist and keeper of journals) with George Oppen (poet and keeper of journals.) Imagining both figures almost as ships passing in the night, Simone Weil - a participant in the French resistance - escaped the Nazis via Marseille in 1941, only to return to resume the fight in England, where she died from TB in 1943. Oppen enlisted and in 1943 arrived to fight in Europe also through the port of Marseille...
2. Haptics: Joseph Noble and Colleen Lookingbill at Books & Bookshelves
3. "My mother leans into the night", haptic and account
My brother says that at night she switches back and forth between the repetition of numbers and letters. This last week he was brought up short when, two-thirds the way through the alphabet, he heard her say:
“… p, q, r, peculiar”… in an astonishingly quick leap from the associative sounds of the letters into a corresponding word of similar sound...
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Stephen Vincent
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