This thread seems to be developing two separate lives, one on Poetics and the other (fuller) on Poetryetc. Now if Roger Day could just "accidentally" cross-post to New Poetry, perhaps Bob Grumman could get in on the act? <g> Robin Hamilton, a.k.a. The Wombled Ferret ****************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 9:58 PM Subject: Re: Richard Long at SFMOMA > Often - as it seemed with Richard Long 'in performance - the politics of > rich and/or poor painters (or artists) is to ignore poets, poetry, and > 'us'. > I suspect - though I could be wrong - "they" - those kinds of artists - > do > not die from the lack of it (poetry). SNIP > Stephen Vincent >> And Max Jacob reading at parties of artists and writers. >> >> Poets tend to be driven by visual images at least as much as by text, >> except in the limited case of langpo and its cousins. SNIP >> Mark >> At 08:47 AM 1/23/2006, you wrote: >>> On 23/1/06 10:59 PM, "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>>> People - particularly visual >>>> artists, have rubbed along without recourse to other disciplines quite >>>> happily for a long time now as far as I can see. There's a whole >>>> history of it. Read any biog of the major artists, look at photographs >>>> of them in their studios, their homes. I think you'll search a long >>>> time before you find evidence of books in those photos. [SNIP]