More than 30 years in the making, Frank Davey’s careful archaeology of the catalogue of innocence his youthful imagination assembled growing up in and immediately after World War II is a work of astonishment.This is no lyrical work of sentimental nostalgia, no attempt to return to a romanticiz...
So much is happening: the “uncorrupted love” that makes us think of all the forms of love that don’t qualify for that description, that demonstrates it’s possible to love a stranger on the strength of ordinary actions; the run-on line that hits us with serial misfortune halted with t...
sure I’ve ever seen a catalogue look so little like the show itself, but thank goodness for that in this case. The bookPunk: Chaos to Couture, published by The Met and distributed by Yale University Press, does exactly what the show does not, excepting that one small gallery: it places...
Records for most Scottish chapbooks have been catalogued online. The Library of the University of Glasgow has over 1,000 examples throughout the collections, searchable online via the Scottish Chapbooks Catalogue of c.4,000 works, which covers the Lauriston Castle collection, Edinburgh City ...
disgust with all the catalogued categories, with the false prophets who are nothing but a front for the interests of money, pride, disease, disgust with the lieutenants of a mercantile art made to order according to a few infantile laws, disgust with the divorce of good and evil, the beaut...
“I’ve always been the girl in the wrong // clothes for spring, yet I understand my body / is a gift.” Miller’s book is a strange testament, teeming with some of the most original poems you’ll encounter this year. “When my mother slaps / my thighs to circulate the water in ...
One of them is the method of suicide used (by sword, rope or by jumping from a cliff); another, the genealogy (with Pasiphae, Ariadne and Phaedra, for instance, three women from the Minoan-Athenian legend follow one another). The catalogue is skilfully designed, and yet remains open ...
Now I look more closely at the library’s catalogue I think it must have been William Soutar’s Riddles in Scots (1937), if there was a book of Scots riddles in existence Roddy would find it. This was the start of dozens of conversations about poetry I had with Roddy, many of them ...
In a draft of a letter dated 26 January 1962, probably addressed to Adorno,43 he describes his Jewishness being taken away from him like clothes, an unmistakable allusion to Kafka’s story A Country Doctor where it is said: “Take his clothes off, then he’ll heal, /and if he doesn’...
The friends of the Duke of Otranto could no more count on him than his enemies: on the return of the Legitimate Princes, he kept his old colleague Monsieur Thibaudeau on his list of exiles, while for his part Monsieur de Talleyrand erased from the list or added to the catalogue such and...