The human body has always made me curious. Our bodies are so complex, yet so fragile. We are living or we are dead. I am a lover of the human form and function and have always been drawn to the more macabre side of life. This book, by Andreas Vesalius, presents modern anatomy in a haunting way. I’ve found solace in the pages of De Humani Corporis Fabrica because I know I’m not the only weirdo with this same obsession.
"I love this simple and beautifully-drawn children's book. I discovered it when Katie was just entering elementary school. It's about loving your child enough to let them fly and discover on their own. You can try to show your duckling the world while holding its wings, but that limits their growth and their world.
Anne Carson's inimitable Autobiography of Red has shaped and reshaped my imagination over the last decade. It continues to change - widen, really - the ways my students and I read and write. I teach it in all of my writing workshops, because it's so many things at once: a novel, a poem, a series of brilliant and utterly strange/original essays, and, in a deep sense, an autobiography not only of its author but also of artists generally. And of volcanoes, mythical creatures, and adjectives. I've never read a more uniquely lovely or lyrical book.
