This month Of Interest celebrates National Poetry Month by featuring select holdings from particular independent booksellers and publishers that provide a healthy offering of poetry. First up, we pair a couple of Seattle's finest - the bookshop closest to my heart and my alma mater, Wessel & Lieberman, and one of the leading publishers of poetry, Wave Books. Enjoy! Paul Celan. Wolf's Bean / Wolfsbohne. Translated by Michael Hamburger. New York: Delos Press / William Drenttel, 1997. One of fifty numbered copies signed by the translator. $100. Philip Levine. What Work Is. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Winner of the National Book Award. $45.00 Ezra Pound, Personae: The Collected...
Of Interest : Book Burning, a Bad Library Idea, Go-Sees, Riprap, Jean Prouvé, Peking the Beautiful, Newer Book picks and more
This week's Of Interest takes us from a rare book on Peking to an anthology of one line poems to a collection of songs inspired by books with a sprinkling of newer books that have caught our fancy. First a few headlines: Seems like the burning of books is a hot topic these days - Pro-Russian demonstrators are burning Ukrainian-language books "in small bonfires in the street" http://ow.ly/uRGOL In what might a first - Vandals torch a Little Free Library near an elementary school in Tuscon, Arizona http://ow.ly/uR7R5 and in what might just be the most nearsighted, wackiest story in some time...
America’s National Parks: Pop-Up Style
"The best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our very best." — Wallace Stegner on our National Parks While our government puts the final touches on a budget all of our National Parks remain closed. As the Huffington Post points out in this handy infographic, "The shutdown of the federal government has had a devastating impact on some of the most beautiful places in the country." Well, here's one way to stay connected while we wait out the madness: A pop-up book! Illustrated by Dave Ember and executed by paper engineer Bruce Foster America's National Parks might...
Visual Dissent: A Graphic Biography of a Woman Rebel
Who is Margaret Sanger you may wonder. Though not a household name Sanger is as pivotal a figure in the women's rights movement as there is. She is the mother of the birth control movement in the United States and in fact it was Sanger who coined the term birth control. It is Sanger who opened the first birth control clinic - think Planned Parenthood - and it is Sanger who worked tirelessly for the poor, teaching women about their options and their rights. Now thanks to the Harvey-award winning author of the alternative-comic series Hate, Peter Bagge, we get an...
How to shoplift books
Move over Abbie Hoffman, California artist David Horvitz has joined you in the biblioklept Hall of Fame. In is latest work, How to Shoplift Books (Come Rubare Libri) published by Automatic Books, Horvitz provides us with 80 different opportunities to steal the book of your choice. "From the very practical, to the witty and romantic, the book reads like simple instructional text." And it gets better. Book collecting meets archaeology in this video where Horvitz buries a number of copies of the book that were misprinted! Luckily, one hundred copies were correctly printed and are available here. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/67754613[/vimeo]...