F R I E N D S After 3 aborted attempts I have finally completed the beta version of my tribute to Philadelpho Menezes. I must confess that I knew very little of his art & activities until receiving the announcement of his death over several of the mailing lists of which I am a member. I was harvesting the seeds of False Blue Indigo (Baptisia Australis) that day & my immediate instinct was to form the newly harvested seed(signs) into the letters of his name & scan them into the computer. Over the last year the intended tribute never really fell into place. When attending E-Poetry 2001 at SUNY-Buffalo, Wilton Azevedo presented an inspiring tribute to Menezes' work which more than anything informs my own attempts at an intersign tribute. Also meeting Brazilian poet/theorists Giselle Breugelmann & Lucio Agra at the festival insured that I had living contact with a body of work that until then had only been virtual. SEEDSIGNS for Philadelpho by mIEKAL aND Allegra Fi Wakest, voice [flash, 517K] http://cla.umn.edu/joglars/SEEDSIGN/index.html
