Living in a Time of Transition: Two Books by Bryher
Seeking something else, I came across this review I wrote in 2006 of Paris Press's editions of two books by the extraordinary Bryher. It was first published in the Fall 2006 issue of Rain Taxi . I don't think it's ever been put online, so I'm happy to release it into the wild here. (The quotation page numbers were included for copyediting and not in the published version, but I figure they might be useful, so I've kept them in. Also, for more samples from The Heart to Artemis , see this post .) Living in a Time of Transition: Two Books by Bryher by Matthew Cheney The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs Bryher Paris Press ($19.95) The Player’s Boy Bryher Paris Press ($15.00) "I found my study of history of great practical value," Bryher writes in The Heart to Artemis . "It helped me to assess the future and to be aware of change."[118] Awareness of change runs through the veins of Bryher's body of work, an...