I first met Stan Brakhage during th...

I first met Stan Brakhage during the summer of 1997 yet it wasn't until the winter of the following year that our friendship really took on the farther side There was a largeness about Stan that was perplexing to negotiate--the largeness of his physical form, the largeness of his voice, and the largeness of his imagination. "You lack focus," Charles Olson formerly told him. That was the comical thing about Stan. Face to face it was hard to mention one by one if he was seeing you, or seeing around you, or seeing something besides entirely--something internal, hypnagogic. I not at all dreamed that Stan and I would