Gus Blaisdell collected

Gus Blaisdell collected / selected and edited by William Peterson ; coedited by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey.

From the moment he arrived in New Mexico in 1964, Gus Blaisdell (1935-2003) was a legendary presence. Famous in Albuquerque as a writer, teacher, publisher, editor, and especially as the proprietor of the Living Batch bookstore, Blaisdell was also a brilliant critic whose essays influenced readers t...

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Main Author: Blaisdell, Gus
Other Authors: Peterson, William, 1945-, Ivey, Nicole Blaisdell
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Blaisdell, Gus.
Blaisdell, Gus
1900-1999
Authors, American > 20th century.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
Authors, American
Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Works.
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Editor's Preface; Introduction: On "Slipping Across": Reading, Friendship, Otherness; ON PHOTOGRAPHS; Absorbing Inventories: Thomas Barrow's Libraries Series; Afterworld: The Photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin; Bldgs: Photographs by Lewis Baltz; Space Begins Because We Look Away from Where We Are: Lewis Baltz's Candlestick Point; Buried Silk Exhumed: The Lewis Baltz Retrospective, Rule Without Exception; From "Obscenity in Thy Mother's Milk": John Gossage's Hey Fuckface! Portfolio; Thirteen Ways of NOT Looking at a Gossage Photograph
  • Passion Misfits Us All: Wim Wenders's Paris, TexasMr. Death's Blue-Eyed Boy: Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket; Still Moving; Highlighting Hitchcock's Vertigo with Magic Marker; ON PAINTING; Frank Stella's The Whiteness of the Whale; Passion's Pine Breeze: The Paintings of Terry Conway; On In: Outside: Guy Williams, Selected Works 1976-1982; Original Face: Allan Graham's Moon 2; Poem: Omoide No Tsukimi
  • ON READING AND WRITING; A Gloss Annexed; Vatic Writing: Evan S. Connell's Notes from a Bottle . . .; Tell It Like It Is: The Experimental Traditionalists; Rebus
  • What Was Called "A Thought Echoed in Sight": Yvor Winters' CentenaryPoem: Occasional Loquats
  • For Robert Creeley on His 70th Birthday; A Nobler Seduction: On Plato's Phaedrus at The Greenwood Press; Slipping Across; FICTION; Introduction: Radical Philosophical Reclamation & Wrecking, Project: TLP Hotel; Radical Philosophical Reclamation & Wrecking, Part 1; Radical Philosophical Reclamation & Wrecking, Part 2; Radical Philosophical Reclamation & Wrecking, Part 3; Radical Philosophical Reclamation & Wrecking, Part 4; SHORTS AND EXCERPTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE
  • Self, Embodied: Correspondence with Nicholas BrownriggOn Objecthood and Art: Letter to Marcy Goodwin; On Art Criticism and Gus's Writing Method: Letter to Geoffrey Young; On Writing and Its Discontents: Letters to Geoffrey Young; A Vigorous Lucidity: An Autobiographical Note on Book Editing and Design; Autobiographical Note: Letter to Lee F. Gerlach; Working Through It: Letters to Ross Feld; A Postscript to "Working Through It": Letter from Ross Feld; Envoi; A Chronology; Bibliography; Back Cover

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