Congratulations Stephen, and congratulations to Mark, I am sure that Mark is
an excellent editor, as he excels in all what he does.
Good luck!
On 5/14/07, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi All:
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> 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.')
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> 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).
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> 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:
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> 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
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> 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
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> Thanks for your interest,
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> Stephen Vincent
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