Street Work

Description

Stephen Vincent

Street Work

ISBN: 978-1-956921-69-4 (pbk.)

(February 1, 2026) 

About Street Work

The “work” is a unique volume of almost one hundred pictures in which street marks and configurations—the stains, found objects, cracks, accidental chalk phrases; an occasional house, trees, foliage—variously combine to drive mind and eye into an alchemy of reflection bearing insights; crossfire politics, dance, romance, love, death, and words themselves bear down to offer life and consciousness into the formation of a human community.

A great new book from Stephen Vincent—hurray! That most difficult kind of writing: simple & astonishing. A book that teaches us in addition to the admonition to “look up” we might also “look down,” taught by the artist & to see and think about the messages, visions, and koans that are at our feet with each walk that we take.

— Hank Lazer, Author of Abundant Life: New & Selected Poems

In Street Work, the reader gets to share in the world of language and visual images that Vincent documents on his many strolls through the city. As great art aspires to do, the cloud-like glyphs and sticks and smudges light up the wires that turn images into thoughts and words. Often the bright colors of the sidewalk art are more hopeful than the world in which they exist. Vincent provides the perfect mixture for our troubling times: words that cut to the quick or directly observe the “view” below his feet, always illuminating and illuminated by what nature and humans do to mark the environment by accident or intention. In this heartfelt collaboration, walk with him through the pages: there’’s much to see!

— Maxine Chernoff, Poet, most recently author of Light and Clay: New and Selected Poems