That is sad, Stephen, but through you she did reach many lives beyond the
shorelines of the Bay. I loved her wit and poetic replies to her son's
interruptions. And I appreciated fully your love in transcribing them and
sharing her with us. What a wonderful age to get to.
Andrew
On 26 September 2012 13:57, Glen PHILLIPS <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> With inevitable sadness, yesterday afternoon my mother,
> > Barbara
> Mioore Vincent died at the age of 96. During the past few years, among
> > many of
> us here, she became known for her
> proclivity to dictate her own
> > poems, often improvising freely off the work of modernist writers such
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> Joanne Kyger, Rexroth, Ginsberg, Levertov, Gertrude Stein and others whose
> > works I would read
> to her.Much of her out put
> was published, most recently a
> > group of poems in Eaoghıs issue on aging, edited
> by Susan Schultz. For most of
> > her public life, she was a politician, City
> planner, and environmental
> > activist in the San Francisco Bay Area, including being a founding
> member of
> > Save the
> Bay. On the Richmond shoreline, the Barbara and Jay Vincent Park ,
> > now part of the Federal Park
> System, is a commemoration of the efforts of my
> > parents to preserve the Bay
> from industrial destruction. A graduate and
> > veteran of many of this countryıs
> 20th century natural, human and economic
> > upheavals, she had an
> incorrigible sense of honesty, bravery and sometimes
> > humor in confronting the
> reality of the various hands into which she was
> > dealt. As not long after my
> father dieed:
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> January will open the horrible
> > threat.
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> February will break off a few of the wicked.
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> March the winds will
> > blow and frighten everybody.
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> April will break my heart.
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> May will come
> > whisking through.
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> June is hard to decipher.
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> July will never stop to say
> > hello.
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> August is jolly and happy for people like me.
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> September is hard to
> > take.
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> October is full of joy for very few.
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> November marks the worst that
> > could ever come.
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> December for many itıs love and joy
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> > me.
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> Barabara Moore Vincent 1916 - 2012
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Andrew
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