Morphology by Between Ruth Lepson & Walter Crump Book Preview

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Morphology

A Collaboration BetweenRuth Lepson & Walter Crump

&Design by

Christina Strong


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Copyright 2006

Several of these poems appeared inPotepoetzine in 1999.

Photos by Ruth Lepson

Photos by Walter Crump


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We are happy to dedicate this book toMiriam Goodman and Karen Davis, whobrought us together in 2003 for their wonder-ful word and image series sponsored by The

Photographic Resource Center at Boston Universi-ty and Gallery One of The New England School ofPhotography.

RL: Thanks also to Joel Sloman, Tim Peterson andSimon Pettet for their helpful meditations on thisbook. And to Nina Nyhart, Margo Lockwood, JonoSchneider, and Celia Gilbert for their earlyreading of some of the poems, and to mycousin Rachel, who lent me her digitalcamera in Italy.

Thank you to all the people in my life who

graciously appeared in my dreams, including dearRobert Creeley, still.

WC: This is dedicated to my wonderful wife, ShahlaHaeri, for her wise input, her sage advice, for herpropensity to discover out-of-the-way places for us totravel to and photograph. But mostly for her patience

during the long hours I spent shaping images forMorphology.

I would like to thank Sue Ann Hodges who taught meeverything digital and who said, No, you will start atthe beginning when I suggested that I knew enoughto begin to take her Digital 2 class. I would also like to

express my appreciation to my friend Jean Segaloff,and to my extended and multicultural families: theCrumps, Haeries, Kafis & Saberies. Thank you to allthe people in my life who graciously appeared in myphotographs.


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oncepts andfacts are drifting

around in theair. One at a time

they sizzle into fireworks.Then I cant see them be-cause theyre inside me.

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All men are pencils, someserrated like cardboard,

some smooth, all areellow but of var ing

length. Each man has to pickout a pencil that complements

him.

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he door and thedoorwaypagesof a book

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e is anantecham

ber la is a parlorl


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Its ani m p o r t a n t

letter. But Icant hear his

dictation andthe pen keeps

leaking all over

the blue paper.


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cabana was the second sentence.

An apple orchard the third. A


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y brain is a tablet

of light.

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n front of me, two hugepages of a book; the one on

the left is the pres-ent, the one on theright the future.Theyre filled with

colorful festive things, bush-es and fruit trees and grass. I

can change whats in them bylooking at them and thinkingof anything I want.

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He says,

The sen-tence isno longer

of use.


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e are stand-ing at the

portico of aword.

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A patternedrug meta-

morphs into anewspaper.


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efinition

f

apability the ability

to do well in doing ones best.:

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