tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post551019782060271734..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Robert Duncan: Salvages: An Evening PieceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-13439207293069296272011-02-27T09:10:55.426-08:002011-02-27T09:10:55.426-08:00Tom,
I saw that yesterday, Elsie Stevens on the d...Tom,<br /><br />I saw that yesterday, Elsie Stevens on the dime, struck a chord (in memory) but I'd forgotten -- thanks again for being our resident historian of so much otherwise lost (or never known) "instances". . . .STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60043053725633128292011-02-26T14:39:07.890-08:002011-02-26T14:39:07.890-08:00I have been thinking about and enjoying this and a...I have been thinking about and enjoying this and all the thoughts and mental images it engenders all day. It does remind me of my own mind when I'm drowsy in bed but thoughts and visions are still marching along and also of my dreams and how they seem to me when I awaken. I even ran an unintentional experiment today during a car ride from Pennsylvania to New York and confirmed this. There are so many memorable lines, thoughts and images here. I agree about Steve's wonderful poem and I really love the ps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79253191067361197452011-02-26T12:09:54.986-08:002011-02-26T12:09:54.986-08:00Very interesting, Artemesia, to see
the lost bust ...Very interesting, Artemesia, to see<br /><a href="http://www.stellacoinnews.com/index.php/mercury-dimes-ch-1-elsie-kachel-stevens/" rel="nofollow">the lost bust of Elsie</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38550740256011044312011-02-26T09:18:59.952-08:002011-02-26T09:18:59.952-08:00Sorry..First link was a dud. Elsie looks to have b...Sorry..First link was a dud. Elsie looks to have been an impish muse, albeit quite beautiful too! I was writing about Stevens of late and was delighted to meet his Elsie here. Thanks,<br />AArtemesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06120821017998835883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20354152949388943932011-02-26T09:05:21.048-08:002011-02-26T09:05:21.048-08:00Origins of the dime:
http://www.coinworld.com/newc...Origins of the dime:<br />http://www.coinworld.com/newcollector/aboutuscoins/Dime_WingedLibertyHead.aspx<br />Pic. Of Elsie Steven’s lost sculpure and her pic. below. <br />http://www.stellacoinnews.com/index.php/mercury-dimes-ch-1-elsie-kachel-stevens/<br />Steven’s family snubbed Elsie and subsequently, Wallace turned his back on them.<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_StevensArtemesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06120821017998835883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31801210370339477132011-02-26T07:37:19.828-08:002011-02-26T07:37:19.828-08:00The profile on the Winged Liberty Head (Mercury) d...The profile on the Winged Liberty Head (Mercury) dime, in the third image from the top (in case anyone's interested and missed the attribution) is that of Elsie Kachel Stevens, the wife of Wallace Stevens.<br /><br />(Is that what's called "being on the money"?)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21141723399894700692011-02-26T07:13:13.676-08:002011-02-26T07:13:13.676-08:00A beauty, Steve, as clear as this sharply chilly m...A beauty, Steve, as clear as this sharply chilly morning.<br /><br />By the by, about that bottom image of "litter" -- Dorothea Lange and RD were both living in Berkeley at the time, and so possibly trod that same ground...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57886416599285721982011-02-26T07:01:29.244-08:002011-02-26T07:01:29.244-08:00Tom,
Thanks! -- "And it is the beauty of whe...Tom,<br /><br />Thanks! -- "And it is the beauty of where we have been living that is the beauty of the hour." <br /><br /><br />2.26<br /><br />light coming into sky above still black<br />ridge, planet next to moon above branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> repeated in a succession of<br /> instances, yet is what<br /><br /> can be present kind of part<br /> of center, formal, etc.<br /><br />silver of sunlight reflected in channel,<br />white of moon in blue of sky on horizon<br /><br /><br />ps. white on red roof but not on ridge -- cold enough last night but clear, no rain (nor snow). . . .STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com