Well put, Doug. Likewise from here in rainy England, Stephen. Condolences
too.
On 25 September 2012 23:06, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We remember her here through you, Stephen. What a long full life.
> Condelences.
>
> Doug
> On 2012-09-25, at 2:59 PM, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > With inevitable sadness, yesterday afternoon my mother, Barbara
> > Mioore Vincent died at the age of 96. During the past few years, among
> many of
> > us here, she became known for her
> > proclivity to dictate her own poems, often improvising freely off the
> work of modernist writers such as
> > Joanne Kyger, Rexroth, Ginsberg, Levertov, Gertrude Stein and others
> whose works I would read
> > to her.Much of her out put
> > was published, most recently a group of poems in Eaogh’s issue on aging,
> edited
> > by Susan Schultz. For most of her public life, she was a politician, City
> > planner, and environmental activist in the San Francisco Bay Area,
> including being a founding member of Save the
> > Bay. On the Richmond shoreline, the Barbara and Jay Vincent Park , now
> part of the Federal Park
> > System, is a commemoration of the efforts of my parents to preserve the
> Bay
> > from industrial destruction. A graduate and veteran of many of this
> country’s
> > 20th century natural, human and economic upheavals, she had an
> > incorrigible sense of honesty, bravery and sometimes humor in
> confronting the
> > reality of the various hands into which she was dealt. As not long after
> my
> > father dieed:
> >
> >
> >
> > January will open the horrible threat.
> >
> > February will break off a few of the wicked.
> >
> > March the winds will blow and frighten everybody.
> >
> > April will break my heart.
> >
> > May will come whisking through.
> >
> > June is hard to decipher.
> >
> > July will never stop to say hello.
> >
> > August is jolly and happy for people like me.
> >
> > September is hard to take.
> >
> > October is full of joy for very few.
> >
> > November marks the worst that could ever come.
> >
> > December for many it’s love and joy
> >
> > But not for me.
> >
> >
> >
> > Barabara Moore Vincent 1916 - 2012
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
>
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
> Latest books:
> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
> Wednesdays'
>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
>
> In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful
> for; I am thankful that I am not a Republican.
>
> H.L. Mencken
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
--
David Joseph Bircumshaw
**
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com
|