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February 10, 2013
February 8, 2013
In the lead up to the Berkeley ecopoetics conference, I’ll...
In the lead up to the Berkeley ecopoetics conference, I’ll be mining LRL for works in that tradition and posting them here. Julia says she could easily change her entire presentation from Dickinson to this Skinner video, which we discussed on the way to work this morning. Ash Smith worked with Jonathan to bring this video it’s current state.
February 7, 2013
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January 31, 2013
More Helen Adam photos from Lake Tahoe (developed from negatives...
More Helen Adam photos from Lake Tahoe (developed from negatives in Photoshop). I asked Kristin Prevallet to have a look at these & she was able to correct me: Helen’s the woman with the dog in the top middle photo here. In the last post, it’s her sister Pat who’s holding the large bloom and, Kristen thinks, it’s Helen on the lake (“tempting the monster that lives below”). She also suggests that it’s likely they lived in this trailer for a year while waiting for a place to open up in SF. The cat’s name’s Kitty…
January 29, 2013
Helen Adam (bottom left), her mother Isabella (top right), and...
Helen Adam (bottom left), her mother Isabella (top right), and someone (maybe Pat? bottom right); Lake Tahoe ca. 1949.
Pat Adam (bottom left), her mother Isabella (top right), and...
Pat Adam (bottom left), her mother Isabella (top right), and someone (maybe Helen? bottom right); Lake Tahoe ca. 1949.
January 26, 2013
A page from Helen Adam’s childhood reader with her...
A page from Helen Adam’s childhood reader with her marginal drawings on a poem by Longfellow. This will be where I light out from next month in my paper for the Berkeley Ecopoetics conference. I found the book from a bookseller in SF who apparently purchased a stack of things from Duncan before everything else went to the Rare Books Room in Buffalo. The book came with some vacation photos of Helen, her sister, and their mother in Lake Tahoe. Like those three, I plan to make my way through nuclear geographies.
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