Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Reps at Batman Paul RepsPicture-PoemsBatman Gallery announcement Here is another Batman Gallery announcement; this time for Paul Reps. Reps is who initially got Haselwood and Hoyem together, as Hoyem wanted to publish a book by Reps. Reps is a haiku pioneer in the…
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The Library and Deaccession
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Walter Benjamin’s “Unpacking My Library” focuses on acquisition; it dares not speak of the dispersal of books, which must have accompanied Benjamin’s initial packing. Benjamin, an exile and a suicide, knew intimately of things left behind. For a book collector, such decisions, such…
Semina Culture
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting You know how today we store up, shoring up, fragments of better days, against these our so fragmentary lives. Stephen Jonas, “A Poem for Tony Sherrod” Floating Bear 35 The weekend before St. Pat’s, I rode the Chinatown bus up to New York…