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Arrive at Easterwine


"Thou Whited Wall" (1974)
"Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" “The eyes of it were the last remnant of the real Pilgrim, and now they’re dead.” The other day, I posted...
Jun 2


"Ginny Wrapped in the Sun" (1967)
William Blake, The Red Dragon and the Woman Wrapped in the Sun, c. 1805 My last post looked at Lafferty's aesthetics and theology in...
May 17


“The All-At-Once Man” (1970)
Picking up on yesterday’s post and the theme of Gnosticism, I want to look its presence in Lafferty’s work a little further. Lafferty...
Mar 18


“Marsilia V” (1975) and Iconographic Insetting
Lafferty’s description and visual imagery are as idiosyncratic as every other aspect of the man's work. Today, I want to consider a trick...
Mar 6


Lafferty's Sacramental Poesis: Creation, Distinction, and Adornment
"I am a very disordered and very often a very bad man, but I know that there is this clarity and order and certainty: the Procession of...
Feb 27
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