So, this is the situation: yesterday I presented you for an ON-GOING READING LIST, today I have extended it. If this is how its gonna be, I’m heading towards a seriously busy summer – . I started my morning reading a chapter of Christian McEwen’s inspirational book World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down. It is the kind of book…
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Mirror Mirrored
Great news: My friend Michelle at Gwarlingo/Gwarlingo Press is launching a new series of limited-edition classic books, illuminated by contemporary artists, starting with twenty-five Grimm’s fairy tales. … We have a strong fairy-tale tradition in Norway. Best known are the folktales collected and published by Asbjørnsen & Moe (mid 19th century). The Norwegian folk tales have a strong romantic…
my favorite house painter
I just read this great text over at Gwarlingo. Michelle starts by quoting Samuel Mockbee, saying: “Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul.” In my opinion, no one portray houses quite like Hanne Borchgrevink. And after pondering about the quote above, it suddenly struck me that it seems to be the soul…
A sentence is a living thing …
I love my Sunday mornings with The Gwarlingo Sunday Poem. The Sunday Poem introduces me to new poets, Michelle’s posts are like windows into new worlds, new words … and new revelations. Today I learned about Ed Skoog, who says tremendous things – like: A sentence is a living thing and that’s the medium that…
Visibilization – (apropos color)
I have been studying color lately, blue has been my main focus, but of course one can not study a color in isolation – This summer New York’s Guggenheim Museum is presenting an exhibition I would have loved to visit, a solo exhibition by James Turrell – all about color, and light. Turrell’s installation, Aten Reign,…
The pleasures of reading Mary Ruefle
You know I have this crush on Mary Ruefle, remember? (I actually believe her remarkable book of lectures; Madness, Rack and Honey, to be amongst the most extraordinarily thought-provoking books ever published). As luck would have it, my generous friend Ann knows my obsession, and today she very kindly supplied me with a link to Michel…
any color you like …
I’ve been reading a lot about the symbolic meaning of color lately, but what do seeing color really looks like? Green Parsley, Gelatin Silver Print, 2010 [from “Any Color You Like”] © Matthew Gamber North American Birds Exhibit, Gelatin Silver Print, 2010 [FROM “ANY COLOR YOU LIKE”] © MATTHEW GAMBER These beautiful images by Matthew Gamber made me…
The Sunday Poem – Mari L’Esperance
There is a very fine presentation of Mari L’Esperance at Gwarlingo today, just listen to this: Prayer Bring it up from the dark, bring it all up, the spiny fish with their needle teeth and wands of phosphorescent light, all that is waterlogged, heavy with its own unbearable weight, all that is strange, malformed, lying in shadow—that crawls and…
in honor of the united nations –
– have a look at this: 192 Pieces of Music for 192 Countries in 192 Days in Honor of the United Nations.
… in the silences between words
Michelle Aldredge at Gwarlingo has just published a very fine post on Christian McEwan. You can read the post here! Christian McEwen was born in Britain, and now lives in Northampton, MA. Over the past two decades, she has taught poetry and creative writing at the New School in New York City; Williams College and Smith…
sub rosa 