Yes, Stephen, I refer to that piece and I read it just a couple of hours
ago. The prose just gets you, I loved every turn, observation, digression,
and as I already said, my association went to two great writers or poets as
you prefer.
On 6/19/07, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Amy. You mean my activity as an 'erasing' clerk at the Ann
> Hamilton
> Installation, I think. Yes to Pessoa and Kaffka. (I hope you read the
> piece
> after 'clerk Stephen' copyedited the piece this morning. Gosh, do I know
> how
> to embarrass prose!)
>
> Thanks for looking.
>
> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
>
> > It is a quite interesting story. It reminds me of Pessoa, Kafka, ...
> >
> > On 6/19/07, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Good that you are having trouble, Patrick! I just went through and
> >> copyedited my piece on Ann Hamilton.
> >> The blog site is work, judging by sitemeter visitor counts, and the
> time
> >> people stay, etc.
> >> Try me again - I would hate to think it is your computer!! But thanks
> for
> >> looking.
> >>
> >> Stephen V
> >> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Sgephen I can't open the blue writing should I be able to -maybe
> because
> >>> computer crashed and program missing??
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On
> >>> Behalf Of Stephen Vincent
> >>> Sent: 19 June 2007 07:27
> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> Subject: New de blog
> >>>
> >>> New at:
> >>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >>>
> >>> Indigo Blue - Erasing Words With Ann Hamilton (Sculptor &
> Installation
> >>> Artist) at San Francisco Museum of Art
> >>>
> >>> ...The installation has already been up for a few weeks, and the
> >> previous
> >>> workers have erased several pages. For reasons unknown to me, the book
> >> is
> >>> being erased from back to front - almost as if the process is to make
> us
> >>> work backwards to the point of the books inception. Some of the pages
> >> are
> >>> perforated with holes from workers who have been too aggressive. The
> >>> assistant curator has sent out an in an email message warning up to be
> >>> gentle with our strokes across the page. Indeed, the type on the pages
> >> is
> >>> variously visible, but definitely unreadable...
> >>>
> >>> &
> >>>
> >>> Mom - Critic and Poet
> >>>
> >>> Friday evening I took to reading some poems to my mom - some Jack
> >> Spicer,
> >>> Denise Levertov and Allen Ginsberg. Previously I have been astonished
> by
> >>> some of the things she has had to say about pieces from Gertrude
> Steinıs
> >>> Tender Buttons and poems in Kenneth Rextrothıs Love And The Turning
> >> Year:
> >>> 100 More Poems From the Chinese. Her manner is to listen closely, and
> >> then,
> >>> when I ask about the poems meaning, to make an authoritative take on
> her
> >>> sense of what she has heard..
> >>>
> >>> Enjoy, and comments appreciated,
> >>>
> >>> Stephen Vincent
> >>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >>>
> >>
>
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