Blackbird Dust Author:Jonathan Williams Blackbird Dust is a collection of pieces-many published here for the first time-by master wordsmith Jonathan Williams, about whom the poet Irving Layton once said, "The sun melts like butter over his sweetcorn thoughts." With a front cover designed by Trevor Winkfield, this book of essays, occasional poems, and photographs rambles through litera... more »ry lives (Robert Duncan, Basil Bunting, Henry Miller, Simon Cutts); photographers (Harry Callahan, Raymond Moore, Art Sinsabaugh, Calrence John Laughlin); artists (James McGarrell, Bill Anthony, Anni Albers); and obituaries (Joel Oppenheimer, Paul Potts, Ernest Matthew Mickler). There is a long piece, "The Moon Pool," on undervalued and overlooked books and writers; and several musings on the pleasures of exploring both great and minor cemeteries in the US and Europe.« less