Bookworm

Name: Bookworm
Price: 8.87 USD
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ISBN: 9781593720230

ISBN-10: 1593720238

ISBN-13: 9781593720230

Edition: 2006

Authors: Rosamond Purcell, Sven Birkerts

List price: $35.00

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Books are man-made artifacts designed to convey information. When they are inevitably invaded by forces of nature and decay, they become suggestive of an alternative literary universe. Noted photographer and collage artist Rosamond Purcell has been exploring this universe for the past thirty years, and in this extraordinarily beautiful collection, the first retrospective of her work, her images teach us to read in a new way. Here are two conjoined volumes transformed by a nesting mouse into a heap of disrupted plot and straw; a 19th century French economics text re-interpreted by foraging termites, and many other oddities from a fertile imagination. Bookworm's 125 color reproductions are…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Quantuck Lane Press & The Mill Road Collaborative, The
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 7.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Joel Agee has translated numerous German authors into English, including Heinrich von Kleist, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Elias Canetti. In 2005 he received the Modern Language Association’s Lois Roth Award for his translation of Hans Erich Nossack’s The End: Hamburg 1943. Sven Birkerts teaches at Mount Holyoke College and the Bennington Writing Seminary. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.



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