The Rag and Bone Bookshop of the Heart – after William Butler Yeats’ ‘The Circus Animals’ Desertion’ and the poetry anthology – a gift from your mother – edited by James Hillman, Michael Meade and Robert Bly. On September 25th, 2017, back when I was still alive (albeit barely) and you were still a classicist […]
A voice moves through me, saying: The first time I used the recorder I said, ‘But what is happening?’ I didn’t really understand, I really felt strange with this device, it isn’t something that’s so obvious, and then I said, ‘Well, it’s logical that I felt this way,’ that is, I want to be close […]
Another day; another post. But for this one, you get a glimpse into process. Yesterday he was digging deep into settler colonial foundation narratives on site at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern in Boston. As he often does when he reposts these posts on here on Instagram (‘New post on www(dot)minusplato(dot)com’, because a while ago […]
Ok, so let me start with a history lesson. If you sitting comfortably, my settler colonizer librarian and reader, then I shall begin… In her recent book Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz describes how 1787 was the year that gave ‘the road […]
Some books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn’d. – Robert Burns ‘Death and Doctor Hornbook: A True Story’, from Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Edinburgh edition, 1787. What is past is prologue. – Zadie Smith White Teeth, 2000 So it begins…the beginning of the end of Minus […]
My librarian and I are taking a break from our daily book posts for Our Library of the Future: A Ghost’s Story. We’ll be back on January 2nd, 2022 and from then on we will continue selecting books from the library I haunt in preparation for the exhibition Whisper into a Hole at Hopkins Hall […]
I’ve spent all my life washing dishes And composing poems most sublime And this has lent me all of my life’s wisdom And made my temperament film and mild I watch the water flow and comprehend it Below my window – the people and the powers Whatever I don’t like I simply overrule it And […]
Intimacy is a vital ingredient for learning – especially when working within informal spaces. To learn from each other and be open to knowledge requires us to be vulnerable, to trust, and to be willing to actively listen openly. – Sepake Angiama ‘Intimacy’, in ‘aneducation documenta 14’, Archive Books: Berlin, 2018 I share these books […]
