Rachel Pollack in Poetry and Prose (from Prague)
Jeff VanderMeer • June 9th, 2009 @ 12:20 pm • Culture
(Prague is crazy, man.)
I was surprised a couple weeks ago to open my post office box and find a sharp-looking little package from Prague. Immediately all of the rich, fantastical memories of visiting that city flooded back–from an art exhibit with a huge wicker chair to a row of neon-glowing penguins, to alcoves and cafes set into gardens and courtyards. There’s a richness to the city that’s inexhaustible and charged with a mischievous imagination, and so it’s no surprise I suppose that a book titled The Tarot of Perfection by Rachel Pollack, published by Magic Realism Press, popped out of the envelope.
An Omnivoracious feature about Rachel Pollack’s two new books, one poetry and one prose…
June 9, 2009 at 5:22 pm
cool…..all i seem to get in the mail are bills and letters from people trying to sell me stuff :-(
peace and love….
June 10, 2009 at 2:24 am
Cheers Jeff, yeas Prague is all about art and art… crazy
June 12, 2009 at 11:20 am
Have you been to Budapest by chance, Jeff? Prague–where I proposed to my SO on the Charles Bridge in 2001–was dazzling in the 1990s, but overrun with Mongolian hordes of tourists in the aughts. You get a chance, try Budapest. Spent half a month there last summer. Have a swim in the Széchenyi Spa if you’re there in one of the warm months.
http://www.spasbudapest.com/furdo.php?idx=14&menu=8
Some surreal moments, swimming in a medicinal bath fed by two thermal springs, surrounded by incredible neo-baroque architecture.
June 12, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Was lost driving through Budapest for a couple of hours once. Not sure that counts… :)