Hope of Love Poems: Ed Baker: Three excerpts from “Stone Girl E-Pic”

Ed Baker: Three excerpts from “Stone Girl E-Pic”

Posted by Lidya Endzo Kun iLLa On 6:43 AM

[1]

get

better

view

dawn

arrives

i say what

can be said
written
in a line

exactly

on
her
back

see is

another

angle

she

asks

gives

only

what

is
yet

give

g i v e n

stone

sees
mind
sees

face

wide

grins

short black hair
flick in frames

nguyen

[2]

together

new

strokes

all

same

time

rhythm

moving

some
same

rise

into

verbs

circumference

centering

surround

hold s

flower
in a
perfect
cracked
vase

[3]

so
close
that
mind

can
touch
smell

taste

her

clearly

contradicting

briefly
confused

his
look
is
to
get

a
better
sense

of

her
in
heat

rock

before
breath

who
says
now

and
what
to
whom

leisure

allows
creation

stone

girl

image

language

inherent

[NOTE. Ed Baker’s Stone Girl E-Pic, a massive gathering of drawings & writings, was published earlier this year by Leafe Press (Nottingham, England, and Claremont, California). It is as such the celebration of a poet/artist/calligrapher whose work attests to its almost outsider status, in the quasi-rawness of the print & pages in the paper version, not visible as posted here, & in the play between visual images & minimal, often scroll-like versings. The opening citation in Conrad DiDiodato’s foreword has something to say of this: “It is important to collect these writers because, as has been the case over and over in the history of literature, the best and most innovative writing, the writing that advances the art and that in the future becomes the classic and defining work of a period, is almost always the work of outsiders.” (John M. Bennett, Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at Ohio State University). Or Baker himself: “... the facts that provoke (or precipitate) a poem or a piece of art that is inside or outside or simultaneously inside/outside ... the poem/piece.” The line between inside & outside is accordingly called into question, even into doubt.
A detailed review by Joseph Hutchison can be found at http://perpetualbird.blogspot.com/2011/06/on-bakers-stone-girl-e-pic.html. (J.R.)]

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