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…
Tag: Michelle Aldredge
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…
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 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…
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