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Lew Welch –<br />
A Journal of<br />
Remembrance<br />
Stephen Vincent<br />
March 1, 1971<br />
Dear Lew,<br />
I’m in the beginning of teaching a course<br />
at the Art Institute that I’m calling BAY AREA ART<br />
& POETRY since WWII. (I come out of the poetry<br />
end of it and am learning a lot about the art). Anyhow<br />
we started down around Point Lobos with Jeffers,<br />
moved over into the Valley with early Everson, then<br />
up into the mountains with Rexroth & going north<br />
with the earlier Snyder and Roethke. Coordinating<br />
poets, painters and photographers where possible<br />
(Weston, Morris, Graves , Toby). Anyway, in a couple<br />
of weeks, we’ll be coming down the coast to finally<br />
get into the City.<br />
Here’s where I’m hoping we can get together. I’ll be<br />
having the class read ON OUT, and The Song Mnt.<br />
Tamalpais Sings. What I want to propose is bringing<br />
the class over to Marin County, say either the Muir<br />
Beach or somewhere on the Mountain and spend a<br />
morning with you reading and rapping about the<br />
poems, anyway you would like to handle it. I’d like to<br />
suggest Monday, March 22. About ten in the<br />
morning. Some students have studio classes in the<br />
afternoon, so I don’t want to cut them out, case the<br />
thing should extend into the afternoon…<br />
Sincerely<br />
Stephen Vincent<br />
3/20/71<br />
Dear Stephen<br />
Unfortunately I’ll be in the state of<br />
Washington till April 1 st or maybe 15 th . The class<br />
sounds really great & I regret to have to miss it.<br />
I’ll phone you when I return to S.F. Is it possible to<br />
do my part in April? Ginsberg will be in town at the<br />
end of April, too.<br />
I can be reached c/o Wm. Yardes, 606 Englebert Rd.,<br />
Woodland, Wash., till April 1 st .<br />
I’ll be talking to you soon.<br />
II<br />
WOBBLY ROCK RE-FELT<br />
Wobbly Rock<br />
1.<br />
for Gary Snyder<br />
“I think I’ll be the Buddha of this place”<br />
and sat himself<br />
down<br />
It’s a real rock<br />
(believe this first)<br />
Resting on actual sand at the surf’s edge:<br />
Muir Beach, California<br />
Lew Welch<br />
(like everything else I have<br />
somebody showed it to me and I found it by myself)<br />
Hard common stone<br />
Size of the largest haystack<br />
It moves when hit by waves<br />
Actually shudders<br />
(even a good gust of wind will do it<br />
if you sit real still and keep your mouth shut)<br />
Notched to certain center it<br />
Yields and then comes back to it:<br />
Wobbly tons<br />
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