For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange is a choreopoem as opposed to a play. From the introduction Shange stated her intent was “a series of seven poems … which were to explore the realities of seven different kinds of [...]
To Bed With Grand Music
To Bed With Grand Music by Marghanita Laski is the fourth of her novels that Persephone Books have published but was the first of those four to be published, in 1946 under the pseudonym “Sarah Russell”. A unique take on the experience of women in WWII England, To Bed With Grand Music opens with [...]
To the Lighthouse
I meant nothing by The Lighthouse. One has to have
a central line down the middle of the book to
hold the design together. I saw that all
sorts of feelings would accrue to this but I
refused to think them out, and trusted that people
would make it the deposit of their emotions – which they
have done, [...]
Embroideries
When I read The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi a couple of years ago, I found it illuminating and a good access point into the form of graphic novels but I didn’t fully enjoy it and found parts dry. However, this didn’t discourage me from seeking out Embroideries when I learned that it [...]
Blueberry Girl
Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman is a poem illustrated beautifully by Charles Vess. Ostensibly a picture-book, the poem was originally written by Neil for his friend Tori Amos and her daughter, Natashya (Tash), Neil’s god-daughter. Written the month before she was born, when she was known as “Blueberry”, Neil was asked to write [...]
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