Re: Stephen Vincent's new book (see below).
For those in the US the easiest way to order this
or other books from Junction Press is through the
webite, www.junctionpress.com, where credit card
payments are accepted through 2CO.
For those outside the US, it's considerably
cheaper, due to 2CO's arcane system for
calculating shipping, to buy the old-fashioned
way. 2CO is aware of this. In several long
conversations with me their people admitted that
they've had numerous complaints and are in the
process of revising their software, but they
can't project a date when that will be finished.
So, go to the website, select the books you want,
and email me at [log in to unmask] Payment
is accepted by check in sterling or dollars.
Paypal's system seems to be more flexible,
although the means of setting it up are to say
the least baroque, involving writing new software
code for each item offered. I'll get to this when
my current deadline crisis is past. Until then I
hope to hear from you with large orders sold, as usual, at a 20% discount.
Mark
>Mark Weiss' Junction Press - as some of you already know - has just released
>Walking Theory, my new book of poems. Ron Silliman at has already given it
>a "to die for" review that I deeply appreciate).
>
>... these are the poems Stephen Vincent has been preparing to write his
>entire life. They definitely pass the ³take the top of your head off² test.
>I went cover to cover without even sitting up.
>Sillimanıs Blog, (http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/) May 15, 2007 (Scoot
>down a day in order to find it).
>
>Walking Theory (84 pages, $12)
>
>Wherever you may be about the globe, Junction now has a website
>(www.junctionpress.com) to enable online ordering and payment. (Just follow
>the alphabetical list of authors down to my name).
>Contact me directly, <[log in to unmask]>, if you prefer a signed copy!
>
>Bookstores can go straight to Junction or to Small Press Distribution.
>
>I cannot help but throw in a couple of nice back cover blurbs from Bill
>Berkson and Beverly Dahlen:
>
>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
>
>Yes, they both quoted the same lines!
>
>Thanks for your interest,
>
>Stephen Vincent
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