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Ted Hughes ‘On Thinking’

January 5, 2011

Sadly the end of the poem Hughes reads,View of a Pig, is cut off, but otherwise this is still rather wonderful: The last line of the poem is: Scald it and scour it like a doorstep. (via Russell Davies)

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Patti Smith on PBS NewsHour

January 3, 2011

I began, of course, as a poet, but the power of rock ‘n’ roll — rock ‘n’ roll was really the canopy of our cultural voice, and especially in the ’60s, late ’60s and early ’70s, that — and our rock stars, the people who were building that voice, whether it was John Lennon or [...]

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Daddy

November 2, 2010

A typographic interpretation of the poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath, printed from 80 hand-carved woodblocks by Copenhagen-based design studio Daddy. The book “seeks to capture and express the emotions and atmosphere of the text through the typographic treatment and woodblock printing.” Beautiful stuff: (via Inspiration Lab)

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English

September 2, 2010

In spite of the hardcover’s beautiful jacket design (by Paola Ecchavaria), it was a citation in Nicholas Carr’s recent book The Shallows that finally got me to read Proust and The Squid by Maryanne Wolfe. It is a fascinating if, at times, academic book that examines the history of written language and the corresponding development [...]

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Q & A with Nick Asbury, Corpoetics

June 22, 2009

I was quite taken with the lovely design and gentle subversion of  Corpoetics — a chapbook collection of ‘found’ poetry taken from the ‘Corporate Overviews’ of well-known brands and corporations — when I first saw it at Ace Jet 170 in February. Author Nick Asbury was kind enough to get in touch after I mentioned [...]

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