evoke the forms

James Joyce | Ulysses | Sylvia Beach, 1922

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:21:08 -0400

James Joyce | Ulysses | Sylvia Beach, 1922

"She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers..."

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:50:00 -0400

“She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the lightbulbs.”

- J.D. Salinger | “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters” | The New Yorker, 1955

npr: life: LIFE.com celebrates Father’s Day with a special...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:36:52 -0400

npr:

life:

LIFE.com celebrates Father’s Day with a special gallery featuring classic portraits of famous dads and their daughters.

Pictured: John F. Kennedy with daughter Caroline, 1958.

(Ed Clark—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Cover of Isol’s La Bella Griselda. The Argentinian...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:25:28 -0400

Cover of Isol’s La Bella Griselda. The Argentinian illustrator won the 2013 Astrid Lindgren memorial prize.

gurafiku: Japanese Theater Poster: Hikarigoke. Kyoko Takahashi....

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:02:41 -0400

gurafiku:

Japanese Theater Poster: Hikarigoke. Kyoko Takahashi. 2012

theparisreview: “I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:52:29 -0400

theparisreview:

“I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?” —Maurice Sendak, 2004

John Steinbeck | Cannery Row | The Viking Press, 1945 (resonant...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:51:49 -0400

John Steinbeck | Cannery Row | The Viking Press, 1945

(resonant with Jonathan Safran Foer’s essay “How Not to Be Alone”)

NYT | "How Not to Be Alone" | Jonathan Safran Foer | June 8, 2013

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 19:40:48 -0400

NYT | "How Not to Be Alone" | Jonathan Safran Foer | June 8, 2013:

…everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs. There are as many ways to do this as there are kinds of loneliness, but all of them require attentiveness, all of them require the hard work of emotional computation and corporeal compassion. All of them require the human processing of the only animal who risks “getting it wrong” and whose dreams provide shelters and vaccines and words to crying strangers.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes. Being attentive to the needs of others might not be the point of life, but it is the work of life. It can be messy, and painful, and almost impossibly difficult. But it is not something we give. It is what we get in exchange for having to die.

printeresting: (via softpyramid) Richard Tuttle, Step by Step,...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:20:25 -0400

printeresting:

(via softpyramid) Richard Tuttle, Step by Step, Woodcut, 80 x 40.5”, 2003.

arpeggia: Sally Mann - Immediate Family, 1992 Artist’s...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:16:32 -0400

arpeggia:

Sally Mann - Immediate Family, 1992

Artist’s statement:

“These are photographs of my children … many of these pictures are intimate, some are fictions and some are fantastic, but most are of ordinary things every mother has seen. I take pictures when they are bloodied or sick or naked or angry. They dress up, they pout and posture, they paint their bodies, they dive like otters in the dark river.”

Read more about Sally Mann at Gagosian Gallery.

"One of my basic notions for a long, long time is that there is this mysterious mountain out there..."

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:16:16 -0400

““One of my basic notions for a long, long time is that there is this mysterious mountain out there called reality. We novelists are always trying to climb it. We are mountaineers, and the question is, Which face do you attack? Different faces call for different approaches, and some demand a knotty and convoluted interior style. Others demand great simplicity. The point is that style is an attack on the nature of reality.””

- Norman Mailer (via theparisreview)

Allan Peterson | Fragile Acts | McSweeney’s, 2012

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:03:56 -0400

Allan Peterson | Fragile Acts | McSweeney’s, 2012

"…What use is innocence or proof. What if they just told us blackbirds are only sucking color..."

Sun, 26 May 2013 22:48:00 -0400

“

…What use is innocence or proof.

What if they just told us blackbirds are only sucking color from things

around them maybe a mixed inheritance of coal and impressionism

or how you can sweat like crazy and play electric bass and not be electrocuted

unless you touch two E strings at once he said inferring from the stories

of birds fried on the powerlines once their tails hit the one behind.

”

- Allan Peterson | from “Innocence or Proof” | Fragile Acts | McSweeney’s, 2012

"The Totality of Facts The laughing gull that flew behind the fencepost and never came out was..."

Sun, 26 May 2013 21:25:00 -0400

“

The Totality of Facts

The laughing gull that flew behind the fencepost
and never came out was the beginning
and then a hand smaller than my hand covered Wisconsin
with a gesture for explanation.
In the afternoon there are pauses between the words
through which commas can grow like daisy fleabane.
A fish with an osprey in its back emerges from the Sound
and nothing can be learned by more analysis.
The book of her hair opens to its binding and I leaf through
the glorious pages of appreciation and that’s not all.
We could not have turned fast enough to catch
light and leftovers from so much of what happened:
the swift figures behind you like a planet’s dark
companion, ships entering and leaving the hall closet
the real and imagined between which is no difference.

”

- Allan Peterson | “The Totality of Facts” | Fragile Acts | McSweeney’s, 2012

"As drawing from a songbird’s coloratura, I dreamt the secret to prosperity is being commonesque."

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:28:25 -0400

“

As drawing from a songbird’s

coloratura, I dreamt the secret to prosperity is being
commonesque.

”

- Timothy Donnelly | from “The Rumored Existence of Other People” | The Cloud Corporation

monoscope: Olivetti Poster — Herbert Bayer

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:39:03 -0400

monoscope:

Olivetti Poster — Herbert Bayer

Richard Siken | Crush | Yale University Press, 2005

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:25:23 -0400

Richard Siken | Crush | Yale University Press, 2005

"Hush, my sweet. These tornadoes are for you."

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:19:00 -0400

“Hush, my sweet. These tornadoes are for you.”

- Richard Siken | excerpt from ”A Primer for the Small Weird Loves” | Crush | Yale University Press, 2005

Elisa Vendramin | “739° Sagra dei Osei”

Sun, 12 May 2013 10:20:27 -0400

Elisa Vendramin | “739° Sagra dei Osei”

"How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant:..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:40:30 -0400

“How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-strings: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.”

- William Faulkner | As I Lay Dying | Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, Inc, 1930