I join Barry in congrats, Stephen.
Did you once upon a time show us a few of these?
Doug
On 2011-11-07, at 5:21 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
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> After Language / Letters to Jack Spicer (BlazeVox)
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> The test of a true poem, Stephen Vincent writes, is how not to die for
> it. How can a book that chills you to the bone — As Jack Spicer’s
> Language surely does — become a structuring, challenging, politicizing
> and even comforting recurring presence through forty years of a life
> lived under its spell? With a hard-won, contrarian patience, Vincent
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> convincing for the precariousness of the path it takes through the
> silent gap between No and One listens to poetry.
> —Peter Manson
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> Stephen Vincent's engagement with Jack Spicer's poetry goes arguably
> farther back than anyone who wasn't a friend or acquaintance. What is
> not arguable is the generative richness of that engagement. Having been
> sent Spicer's Language by a friend while serving as a Peace Corps
> volunteer in a Nigeria poised on the brink of civil war, he finds in its
> "uncomfortable music" a poetry uncannily expanding the borders of
> meaning. Cast in the creative-epistolary form of Spicer's own After
> Lorca, this book is a tactful searching: it respects the intransigence
> of the poems, and tries, in the gentlest of ways, to understand the man
> who wrote them. After Language is a meditation on interpretive
> migration, on the troubled paths of poetic inheritance, and on the
> tangled, fraught (and yes, magical) ways that poetry survives it makers.—George Albon
> 94 pages; $16.
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> http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/Poetry/after-language-letters-to-jack-spicer-by-stephen-vincent-255/
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> To get a book sense, feel welcome to request (from me) an email example of a sample "letter".
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> Stephen Vincent
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Douglas Barbour
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