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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

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----- 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]