Item
Captain Fathom's Fables
- Title
- en_US Captain Fathom's Fables
- Description
- en_US First edition
- Alan Graham
- Creator
- en_US Graham, Alan See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Various
- Date
- 2022-11-07T16:12:51Z
- 2022-06
- en_US 2002
- Date Available
- 2022-11-07T16:12:51Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2002
- Abstract
- en_US The cover continues: "Interview. Sketches. Fables. Notes. Poetry." This is one of the three books found in my fascinating visit to Bolerium Books in San Francisco. It is a collection of material by and about a singular human being. As his comment on the last page declares, what has kept him going in gray times is "the resilience of the human spirit and our basic decency." After an opening interview on what brought Graham to his hippie-commune-fishing life along the West Coast, a substantial portion of the book is "sketches," one-or-two page journalistic comments on people and events. Most of what are labeled "fables" turn out to be chapters in a dreamy surrealist encounter of hippies with their enemies. Various designs and illustrations punctuate the book. My favorite has a lively smoking human reader sitting on a mushroom and reading "Fables!" (70). People get around, and so does the word "fable"!
- Identifier
- en_US 13123 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Pacific Transcriptions
- en_US Mendocino CA
- Subject
- Alan Graham See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection