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Like Mother, Like Son
Did you know that William S. Burroughs’ mother was an author too? Graham Rae furnishes an inspired analysis of Laura Lee Burroughs’ writings on the art of flower arranging. The three tomes, sponsored by Coke (the company, not the drug), offer glimpses into her and therefore her son’s world. Read Like Mother, Like Son and [...]
Posted in Art, Asides, Literature Also tagged flower arranging, Laura Lee, William Burroughs
Horse and Buggy Press
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 [...]
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
How to Survive in America
This post on Flickr caught my eye as I was skipping rocks in my Netvibes universe today. Scanned cover of a book I found dumped in a box on a street in Berlin, from the Cambridge University Press printed in 1983. Love the dramatic title and the strangely psychedelic imagery. Oh, btw, this is a [...]
The Anatomy of Yeats’s Inventions
In her preface to “Our Secret Discipline,” Helen Vendler tells us that 50 years ago, as a graduate student at Harvard, she planned to write her dissertation on Yeats’ poetry; then on reflection decided that, at age 22, she didn’t know enough to write about a poet who kept going until age 73…(Continue reading at [...]
Posted in Asides Also tagged Asides, Poetry, w.b. yeats
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