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Hi All: Mark Weiss' Junction Press - as some of you already know - has just released Walking Theory, my new book of poems. Many of the pieces that appear in the title poem first appeared as "Snaps", poetryetc's weekly Wednesday 'episode.' I appreciated the input/feedback from many of you here during the process for which I remain grateful, as well as to Mark's fine - with now legendary skills - as the book's editor. (The guy does put an ear on the pulse of each line and is very good at pointing out 'the clunkers.') Wherever you be about the globe, Junction now has a website to enable online ordering. (Just follow the alphabetical list of authors down to my name). Walking Theory (84 pages, $12) www.junctionpress.com Contact me <[log in to unmask]> if you want a signed copy! I cannot help but throw in a couple of nice blurbs from the backcover: At long last is Walking Theory, Stephen Vincentıs observant, large-hearted poems bundled into book form, engaging architecture, people on the move, the seasons and other transience, the talk that binds the day: Goodbye, rhetoric, ³the desperate,/what can the poem do, walking, step-by-step:/ witness, suffer, hope.² Urbane and companionable, rare virtues flaunted here, curbside delight. Bill Berkson Stephen Vincent's work here preserves and enhances the ancient association of the foot as measure of the poetic line. In Walking Theory measure becomes metaphor: ³...foot ever to the ground, image by image, /thought by thought, word by word...² This is the measure of the continuity of a poetıs life as he moves through the days, from the grief-stricken rhythms of the opening section of elegies to the more expansive tours of the San Francisco neighborhoods where he lives and works. Vincent celebrates the beauty of these familiar landscapes, as well as strange, unexpected and sometimes mundane details. In a wonderful pun that arises in the midst of the naming of spring flowers, ³the dotted eye² suggests the I of linguistic convention as the seeing, moving bodyıs eye transformed by language. Finally, in this serious play of words, the poets asks: ³what can the poem do, walking, step-by step:² and credo-like responds: ³witness, suffer, hope.² Beverly Dahlen Thanks for your interest, Stephen Vincent