Plathophilia

Eye Rhymes purports to be the first book to examine Plath’s visual art and to “gauge that art in relation to her heralded literary career,” and it does feature artworks of hers that have never been published before. But mostly, it’s another look at Sylvia Plath’s development as a poet.

via Bookslut’s Plathophilia: Rereading Sylvia

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1. So why not consider a revolutionary if not long-forgotten information concept: a book; a book whose pages have texture that can be felt; a book whose letters make a slight indentation in the paper yet jump off the page; a book with hand-stitched binding. "I'm trying to get people to see a book as an aesthetic artifact, not as a generic container," says Dave Wofford, who operates the one-man letterpress Horse and Buggy Press. "I like the concept of attention to detail, tactileness, intimacy. To me books can't be beat for those things. via The Durham News Horse and Buggy Press
2. The end of July closes out Ovation TV's American Revolutionaries event.  If you haven't checked it out yet I highly recommend doing so if you get a chance. They're onto something there, and have moved mountains since relaunching in June. After all, they're the only national television network dedicated to the arts and personal creativity.  They've built a multimedia community around a mission to inspire and connect, and have made that community accessible to amateur and professional alike. Here are just a few of the artists featured this week: Monet Matisse Picasso Martha Graham Sylvia Plath Margot Fonteyn John Cale and many more To view the programming schedule and witness the unwavering evolution visit OvationTV.com.
3. Guthrie Martin agrees. "So many poets I know are so concerned with MFAs and prizes and getting published, making their mark," she said. "For me, having who you are as a poet live on isn't about any particular poem you write or your body of work. It's about how you inspire other people to be interested in poetry. It's just lovely to see people engaged in open, honest, friendly, generous, brilliant discussions of poetry just because they love it that much."  (via UW News)
4. There's an underground economy of boosted books. These values are commonly understood and roundly agreed upon through word of mouth, and the values always seem to be true. Once, a scruffy, large man approached me, holding a folded-up piece of paper. "Do you have any Buck?" He paused and looked at the piece of paper. "Any books by Buckorsick?" I suspected that he meant Bukowski, but I played dumb, and asked to see the piece of paper he was holding. It was written in crisp handwriting that clearly didn't belong to him, and it read: 1. Charles Bukowski 2. Jim Thompson 3. Philip K. Dick 4. William S. Burroughs 5. Any Graphic Novel

   This is pretty much the authoritative top five, the New York Times best-seller list of stolen books. Its origins still mystify me..

   I asked the man whether he preferred Bukowski's Pulp to his Women, as I did, and whether his favorite Thompson book was The Getaway or The Killer Inside Me. First the book chatter made him nervous, but then it made him angry... Continue reading Flying Off the Shelves by Paul Constant | via The Stranger Any booksellers reading this?  I'm curious about the how the lists might compare from store to store, city to city... Not surprised Buk is at the top of this one, however.  But where is Hoffman?  Surprising omission.

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