Portfolios
… you can never go back. Without covers, hardcover books become confident blocks of wood—they don’t shimmy or slide in … orange wind-up bird toy against a baby-blue background gradient. Geoff Spear photographed the toy so that most of it … what I want for my own journey as a creative person. It also illustrates the process of finding solutions in design …
… in 1968, Robert C.W. Ettinger shared his vision of a coming world in which humanity would be freed by beneficent … them or removing them in the mind of the individual. . . . Competitive drives, in the inter-personal sense, may or may … tomorrow is almost self-parodic; yet in essence it reveals a mindset that is not uncommon. Anyone who would devise …
… the tangled skein of accusations and confessions in that community, a task so brilliantly essayed, for example, by … biography, psychology, sociology, and history—the “four points of one scholar’s compass,” as he puts it—and in each … simply with hysteria; for by studying witchcraft as one studies infant mortality rates or patterns of land distribution …
Poetry
… picture of Gordon, the infamous formerly enslaved Union soldier with the scourged back trashed with vicious scars in … galvanizing power of the mutilated Black body. Does horror compel us more than beauty? A picture of Gordon’s back … of red that seeped from the edge of the brush.” Her work also hangs in the Tate with a piece titled Esirn Coaler on …
Essays
… An Impression of John Galsworthy The German public which has given to “The Forsyte … of a German painter, had taken us into her home. She has died since then but her fragile distinction still moves me … describe him, if it were more spiritual. One very soon becomes sure in intercourse with this man, of what one really …
Poetry
Old Song Praised be friends. Praise enemies. Praise the dark above. Praise hangovers. Praise cigarettes. The vulture and the dove. Praise all music. Praise the harp. And the amplifier’s buzz. Praise the days we’d live forever. And loneliness. And love. …