by Stan Brakhage, 2001
some stuff from the book:
on Gertrude Stein’s 1913 manuscript “Sacred Emily” (”a rose is a rose is a rose“, written in a circle*), Brakhage says it’s birth, sex, and death (arose, eros, sorrows, arrows); Brakhage also discusses “my wife has a cow and i love her” (cow=orgasm) ["As a Wife Has a Cow a Love Story"]
Ed Dorn and William Carlos Williams and Charles Olson
Hollis Frampton’s five bird songs: good morning; I found a worm; love me; get out; good night
“I’ve written a lot and I make a living talking about films, and I’m also aware and would warn you that the only value in this lecturing to make a living decently is that we see how works withstand this honest verbal outpouring. We see that despite all this talk they still stand there, withstand the investigation.” Stan Brakhage, “Poetry and Film,” 1977, p. 190
*added 12/15/08: “She [Miss Stein] had also discovered many truths about rhythms and the uses of words in repetition that were valid and valuable and she talked well about them.” p. 17 Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast