This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The Santo Domingo Collection continues to bolster Harvard’s library of works by author and occult leader Aleister Crowley. These range from substantive books on magic to pamphlets containing individual poems (one of these, titled “Tyrol”, is a condemnation of Read More
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Re-Sounding Wallace Stevens
“It is/ A sound like any other. It will end,” writes Wallace Stevens in “It Must Change,” a sequence whose audible existence (at least as rendered in the poet’s voice) had until this Fall to a certain extent ceased. The lacquer microgroove disc of “It Must Change,” recorded 60 years ago this month, on October Read More
Street Art in the 1970s
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The Faith of Graffiti presents the reader with beautiful full-spread photographs of street art by Jon Naar and Mervyn Kurlansky with an accompanying text by Norman Mailer. By keeping the text separate in the center of the book, the Read More
New on OASIS in November
Finding aids for three newly cataloged collections, all part of the Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection of Theater, Dance and Music, have been added to the OASIS database this month: Processed by Ashley M. Nary Photographs of 20th-Century Theatrical Productions and Motion Pictures, 1901-1994 (MS Thr 1042) Sheet Music Featuring Songs from Jacques Offenbach’s Operas, 1868 Read More
Spooktacular!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. In honor of Halloween I thought we share some creepy images that we found recently in a copy of Vu, a French periodical that covers a range of topics concerning France in the early 20th-century. As the cover attests Read More