Category Archives: Literature

We Lost Many Dolls* This Week

It has been a sad week for art and poetry with the deaths of poet Wislawa Szymborska (88); the last living Surrealist poet and artist, Dorothea Tanning (101); and the pioneering contemporary artist, Mike Kelley (57). Wislawa Szymborska leaves us her poems. She wrote one of my favorite poems of all time, “In Praise of […]

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February 3, 2012 – 12:44 am | By Carrie McGath | Posted in Art, Deceased, Literature, Poetry, Surrealism | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Still Excavating Dare Wright

I discovered Dare Wright, the reclusive author of haunting and still provocative and popular children’s books like The Lonely Doll and Edith and Big Bad Bill while I was working in a library in Michigan. Like most of the books I have come to treasure, these books came to me, sitting alone on a table […]

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November 14, 2010 – 10:43 pm | By Carrie McGath | Posted in Art, Dare Wright, Dolls, Literature | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (6)