These fragments I have shored against my ruins. -T.S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.  -T.S. Eliot
Showing posts with label Edward S. Curtis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edward S. Curtis. Show all posts

Friday, September 20, 2024

I am the Stranger



















    We are living in a foreign country.
    -Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions




Image: Edward S. Curtis, Chaiwa, a Tewa Indian girl with a butterfly whorl hairstyle, 1922
Title: quote from Edmond Jabès

Thursday, April 12, 2012

The Physicality of Writing




I discovered the tongue and the lips of my heart. Since then I have not had a mouth.
—Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book], translated by Rosmarie Waldrop



Photo:  Edward S. Curtis