Joy of Verse Escape challenged us to share our bookshelves with other bloggers. Her post about it is here http://versiscape-lifesentences.blogspot.com/2011/11/dept-of-since-you-asked.html#comments. This is all but 12 shelves (yikes – I left out lots of fiction, non-fiction, and how to write books (got 2 shelves of those, writers like to write them)). Here you’ll find fiction, poetry (most is on my Kindle and other blogs), art books, reference (though my NG Atlas has to sit on the coffee table it’s too large for all my bookshelves), mythology, and philosophy. In addition I was inspired by Joy to take a picture of my writing desk (though the notebooks aren’t usually spread out like that :)). For those of you who don’t know I am also a painter and composer/musician/vocalist. I may share my other shelves later but this feels like plenty for now. Also any book that looks raggedy is used or a gift, I am very good to my books as any self respecting bibliophile would be. Also, I don’t want to debate the books, just because I have one doesn’t mean I agree with everything that’s in it or think it’s a great book. I didn’t realize I had a problem until preparing this post – good thing my brother gave me that Kindle! Hope you’ve all enjoyed this unprecedented peek behind the curtain at Chromapoesy. Thank you Joy for giving me such a good reason to dust!
The Great Book Caper
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Holy cannoli, I could spend some serious time in your library! Just to name a few: I’m salivating over your Matthew Barney book, your Wayne Thiebaud book, and I’d like to read your book on Chauvet from cover to cover. I have a copy of that big Clemente book (it’s one of my faves) but I noticed you also have a nice Rauschenberg, something I’ve always wanted. Your writing desk is gorgeous. Thanks so much for sharing these, loved the peek (and something tells me I need to learn about Gerhard Richter).
Thanks Mark! I knew you’d like the Clemente. That Thiebaud book is marvelous and the Barney book I actually bought for my friend who’s a video/performance artist for her birthday. I got to her party and her husband also had the same bright idea so I got to bring it home. Rauschenberg is a favorite and that’s a great book of his stuff. Gerhard Richter has his own shelf for a reason :)! I think you’d enjoy him (broad range so look at lots of stuff before deciding if you like him). Thanks for visiting the library, did you post one?
Rauschenberg has been one of my biggest inspirations for a very long time. And Thiebaud is just amazing. I’m going to post early next week after I get through a couple of big workdays. I’ll send you a note on twitter, I’d like for you to drop by. Still drooling…Brendan calls this “poet porn.”
Brendan would :), too funny. Great, I’d appreciate the notification.
Happy Monday, Anna. Here’s my bookshelf post:
http://markerstetter.blogspot.com/2011/11/bricoleurs-underskirts.html
Love, love, and love!
Thank you Mama Zen, so glad you enjoyed a bit of my library. I always wanted to live in a house with floor to ceiling bookcases requiring a ladder, better yet a two story library :).
Nice collection! Neat. 🙂
I really like your writing desk!
Me too :), though it is terribly heavy.
I love books…always have. And have always been told by many…I sure they don’t read…that books are “clutter”, including my mother. I am now having to downsize because of my age and I think of my books as “old friends” and it is very hard to part with them.
Thanks for sharing your library…I’m with you…lots of books floor to ceiling…never thought of a two story bookcase, but now, I’m with you !
A quick note…now my daughter is 40, so this is many years ago when she decided to “help” me clean while I was at work and I arrived home to find 8 shelves of books in one big pile in the middle of my living room floor ! I have never been able to restore complete order to the shelves…I now have many more book cases too boot. But the memory of her being so happy that she was helping me….and the shock, well, it is a fun memory now and brings a big smile to my face to remember it ☺.
Peace,
Siggi in Downeast Maine
Great story, I bet she was proud of herself for being so helpful. I’m sorry to hear you’ve had to downsize your library. Yes, a two story library would be stellar with maybe a spiral staircase.
Read me somethin’, Auntie Anna! Pleeeeeeeeeeeease????
Oh, did you post your library? I’m an excellent reader, I’d be happy to :).
Looks very neat and orderly and lovely. It reminds me oddly of those posters of the doors of Dublin. (Of course, this is more the doors of consciousness.) K.
That’s a wonderful image, thank you!
mm my books are buried behind stacks of old computers and in boxes still with nowhere to unpack them. perhaps that explains the jumble of my mind. i have some of the same artists, klee, gauguin. gaudi in catalan, graphic novels and picture books like shaun tan’s arrival. lots of novels, kim likes science fiction. i like terry pratchett’s whimsy. would like to read more mythology and philosophy. i have been reading books and returning them to the book exchange and finding another one. perhaps this means my mind is deciduous. i guess i notice the sense of space for the books and writing. =)
Yes, space is key for me. Sounds like a great collection you have though it’s too bad they’re hidden away at the moment. A deciduous mind, interesting, I live where there are almost entirely, with the exception of aspens, evergreen trees :).
Cool. Always neat to see other’s shelves. Maybe I’ll put some of mine up someday, too lazy today though:) The two pics I like the most are the last two, especially the last one- the religious pieces look awfully familiar, just can’t figure it out. Love those pottery/vase/ceramic pieces as well. Thanks for sharing these- would love to see your art space, I’ve seen a bunch of them in the research I’ve done over the past year, and while most have a similar feel to them, there’s always a thing or two which differentiates each from the others-kind of like art itself, in some cases anyhow. Again, was a nice treat. Thanks
Thanks Fred, one of the religious icons is of Sophia (Wisdom) with Pisti (Faith), Elpida (Hope), and Agape (Love) that I got while visiting Bethany beyond the Jordan. The pottery is Japanese and the vases are from Israel and a local glassblower. I have a book on art studios that inspires dreams of awe inspiring creative spaces. I’ll post pictures from the studio sometime next week. Thanks so much for stopping by, I always appreciate your visits!