A Palpable Elysium
Subtitle: Portraits of Genius and Solitude
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: David R Godine
Published: October 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781567921496
Subjects: Biography: general; History - General; Black Mountain College (Black; Arts, American; Literary Criticism; Literary Collections; Biography / Autobiography; Higher; Faculty; Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.); Educators; Art; American - General; 20th century; Alumni and alumnae; Biography
First sentence: KENNETH REXROTH could be scabrous, scurrilous, serene as Li Po on a moonlit creek, and gloriously funny - often, all at once.
Description: "If any place of the past century spawned originals like a breeding box, it was Black Mountain College, and among its many illustrious graduates is one Jonathan Williams, poet, publisher, raconteur, and eclectic collector of like spirits. In this book, Williams has made the rounds and produced his inventory of poets, painters, writers and artists whose only commonality is their unequivocal distinction.".

"This is a collection of extraordinary personalities captured on film in Williams's revealing, unpretentious casually evocative photographs, and decoded through Williams's intimate, often hilarious, extended captions and essays."--BOOK JACKET.