Or order direct from me and get a 20% discount. Tho at $12 cover
price it hardly matters. It's a wonderful book.
Mark
At 05:54 PM 7/3/2007, you wrote:
> > I just got around to reading Stephen Vincent's new book, & it's really
> > worth the read.
> > One of the things not mentioned in the cover copy etc, is that the
> > whole book is a kind of elegy, or at least elegiac for a country,world,
> > as well as his father, brother, & friends....
>
>Thank you, Doug, for your kind account. Yes, elegy infuses Walking Theory.
>No question. But may it be elegy in the sense of lifting things to a kind of
>music in which the visual and audio world become more animated, with wit and
>relish, rather than entirely gloom ridden (as often is my first response to
>the to poetry title with 'elegy' in it!) Though no loss is without a deep
>sadness as well, and that's also here to
>
>In case anybody on this list has missed a previous drum beat, here is title
>and order information:
>Walking Theory (84 pages, Junction Press).
>For ordering information, go to:
>www.junctionpress.com
>
>Stephen Vincent
>
> > The sharp eye moving through a closely felt world is remembering as
> > well as observing, & memorializing.
> >
> > Not just in the first section, but also in the long title sequence, it
> > seems to me. Many of us will recall the pieces with his mother fitted
> > in there, but the whole thing gets stronger as one reads on (with
> > reference to a discussion here recently, I also like the way he eschews
> > the 'I' almost all the way through, so that when it appears (& not
> > always obvious who is I-ing things) it has real force).
> >
> > It's a book that carries a sense of long incubation, & a maturity only
> > time can bring.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> > Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> > (780) 436 3320
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >
> > Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> >
> >
> > You may allow me moments
> > not monuments, I being
> > content. It is little,
> > but it is little enough.
> >
> > John Newlove
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