http://stephenvincent.net/blog Pix & Texts, Poetry, Commentary, Politics, etc. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:03:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Panel 1, Talking with Mom, 2:30-4:00pm; August 29, 2010 (Accordion Fold) After a period of illness in which we thought we might lose her, my mother has revived! Her monologic dementia is back on full throttle while often interrupted by wonderful, if not curious moments of lucidity. I arrive on ... http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=959 Haptic: An Infinite Letter to You Sweetheart Point; Greensprings Farm, Ashland, Oregon 10-12am, Sunday, August 15, 2010 http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=957 It’s curious the way in which we can write a book, go through the editing, printing and promotion process (when done right it is an enormous amount of work), then, a couple of years later, forget all about it. Inevitably, as I have, we get immersed in ever new projects ... http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=956 Haptic: Mother Napping, 3:30 - 4:00pm, August 7, 2010 Today, as I do when I can, I visited by mom. At 94, during the last two months, she has begun to decline considerably. She spends much of her time sleeping. Awake, her dementia is such that though she can recognize ... http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=955 “Tower”, Ann Hamilton: Steven & Nancy Oliver Ranch, Geyserville, California I been thinking about Towers and Columns, particularly Ann Hamilton’s Tower, Brancusi’s Infinite Column, the Trajan Column in Rome, and David Nash’s column (name?) that is currently installed at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. I visited each earlier this summer and I ... http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=952 A carefully wrapped luminous scarf of light; an iconic mischief pulls the eye up short. Malevich, circa 1917, I suspect, would have sprung for this. The way certain hearts manage the dark. [Painters’ scaffolds & veils at late dusk, Church Street near 23rd, San Francisco. Neighborhood Anthropology Series]. http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=954 On Sunday afternoon, David Wolach, a poet, who also teaches at Evergreen College, led a nonsite discussion entitled, “Commoning The Body”. He started the event by inviting everyone in around the large table - about 15 folks - to hold out their left hands to feel the pulse on ... http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=953 Haptic: Kenny Goldsmith, conceptual poet, reading from radio and television transcriptions of commentators responding to the death and history of Michael Jackson; 4:45 to 5:15,June 11, at Maurice Gross auditorium, Copernic building, Université Paris Est Marne-La-Vallée, Cité Descartes Haptic: Lawrence Kearney, poet, reading at Books & Bookshelves, 15th & ... http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=951 http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=950 Brief Signs from a London Story This is not what it’s about. Nor This Nor But And its promise of a secretive interior passage Leading one into a righteous, but perhaps realistic message of destruction and terror: And the residual evidence of a once beautiful somebody, some even say a lost muse, who was once a neighbor. ... http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=949