Trickster Makes This World
Mischief, Myth, and Art

This is the sorta book you always wish you were able to write. It's thick, learned, full of digressions and personal asides, and the dude even translates the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (say it fast, I dare ya) out of Greek himself. I doubt it's for everyone. The pace can be a tad pokey; I recommend read......more

This is a non-fic, which uses Freud and Jung's approaches to human unconsciousness to outline the figure of trickster both in old works (Greek myths about Hermes, Native American stories about Coyote and African Legba and Eshu among others) and in recent history, e.g. discussing the life and writing......more

The power of this book, for artists, is the overwhelming evidence of our descent from a being more than human, less than divine - one who inhabits the crossroads, crosses boundaries, works the joints, sees more and risks all.......more