REFLECTION ON MY BOOKCASE

The bookcase is relatively new, when it was delivered in January Tasha discovered a new perspective--on JACK KEROUAC?
The happenstance juxtaposition of Tasha and Kerouac causes me to think about mother, yes, she loves cats, but is it cool to blog about your cat? Well, this is not about Tasha who is a very literary feline, with blue eyes.

Jack Kerouac is one cool cat.

Kerouac's books are lined up in one of bookcase's twelve boxes along with biographies written Kerouac, The Beats and other Beat writer's books.

My bookcase holds a fair amount of books. My bookcase is a mind map and an artifact. It replaced two glass and chrome etageres that could no longer contain my books that had spread over floors and furniture in our one bedroom apartment that is my de facto studio. At the moment the books are arranged chronologically beginning with Homer's Odyssey working through the Greek Tragedies, Roman philosophers, Medieval and Renaissance, and18th and 19th novels in the two top left boxes, literary theory in two boxes below and a box of miscellaneous books on the bottom.

Although I wished to highlight James Joyce in the center box chronological veracity and maxim space utilization dictated the box be shared Hemingway, Beckett, Baldwin, Faulkner, Neal-Hurston and Bowen, all  published before Kerouac whose books begin the postmodernist section divided by genre, novels, short story, and poetry. The remaining box (if your counting) contains my spiritual library, of notable mentions are, Ron Dass' pivotal book, "Be Here Now," books about Buddhist mysticism, Kabbalah (my partner's search pre-Madonna) and The Tibetan Book of the Living and Dying (all of us).

My bookcase’s non-linear design Classic Modern reference reflects resists categorization of narratives by genre, which leads to the realization that I had unconsciously followed culturally ingrained patterns, worst I had isolated Virginia Woolf, Feminist Lyric Critique, Lyric Essay, Anne Carson, and Lydia Davis into a lovely true Classic Modern credenza behind class doors. 






This epiphany arrives through process conscious and unconscious Lynn Hejinian (her books behind glass) adresses in her essay "Strangeness," quoting William James.
"Knowledge of sensible realities thus come to life inside the tissue of experience. It is made; and made by relationships the unroll themselves in time."
The purpose of The Interactive Bookcase to unroll, reveal and share "the work of being in the world."