Conjunctions #63

Conjunctions #63

by Bradford Morrow (Editor), Julia Elliott (Contributor)

"Conjunctions: 63, Speaking Volumes" is a library of ideas on the book as a portal of the imagination, a gateway of language and imagery. Here, the reader discovers meditations on historic books, secret books, imaginary books, ghostwritten and pseudonymous books, books translated and books banned, rare books and forged books. Books that break new ground, books that put words under the microscope, books that signify and those that defy interpretation. Books made of paper or parchment, e-books, poems both about and on Greek urns, narratives tattooed on skin. "Speaking Volumes" encompasses them all, with writing about writing itself and books that beget other books. Among the many innovative contemporary writers who address this fundamental subject are Peter Gizzi, Samuel R. Delany and Melissa Pritchard.

Genres: Short Stories

380 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 2015

About the author

Bradford Morrow has lived for the past thirty years in New York City and rural upstate New York, though he grew up in Colorado and lived and worked in a variety of places in between. While in his mid-teens, he traveled through rural Honduras as a member of the Amigos de las Americas program, serving as a medical volunteer in the summer of 1967. The following year he was awarded an American Field Service scholarship to finish his last year of high school as a foreign exchange student at a Liceo Scientifico in Cuneo, Italy. In 1973, he took time off from studying at the University of Colorado to live in Paris for a year. After doing graduate work on a Danforth Fellowship at Yale University, he moved to Santa Barbara, California, to work as a rare book dealer. In 1981 he relocated to New York City to the literary journal Conjunctions, which he founded with the poet Kenneth Rexroth, and to write novels. He and his two cats divide their time between NYC and upstate New York.

Visit his website at www.bradfordmorrow.com.