{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-reimagined-isbn-9780262039963","title":"Walter Benjamin Reimagined","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's ideas; a graphic translation; an encyclopedia of fragments.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalter Benjamin was a man of letters, an art critic, an essayist, a translator, a philosopher, a collector, and an urban flâneur. In his writings, he ambles, samples, and explores. With \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin Reimagined\u003c\/i\u003e, Frances Cannon offers a visual and literary response to Benjamin's work. With detailed and dreamlike pen-and-ink drawings and hand-lettered text, Cannon gives readers an illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's thoughts—a graphic translation, an encyclopedia of fragments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCannon has not created a guide to Benjamin's greatest ideas—this is not an illustrated Walter Benjamin cheat sheet—but rather a beautifully rendered work of graphic literature. Cannon doesn't plod through thickets of minutiae; she strolls—a flâneuse herself—using Benjamin's words and her own drawings to construct a creative topography of Benjamin's writing. Phrases from “Unpacking My Library,” for example, are accompanied by images of flying papers, stray books, stacked books—books “not yet touched by the mild boredom of order”—and a bearded mage. Cannon takes the reader through different periods of Benjamin's writing: “Artifacts of Youth,” nostalgic musings on his childhood; “Fragments of a Critical Eye,” early writings, political observations, and cultural criticism; “Athenaeum of Imagination,” meditations on philosophy and psychology; “A Stroll through the Arcades,” Benjamin's unfinished magnum opus; and “A Collection of Dreams and Stories,” experimental and fantastical writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith drawings and text, Cannon offers a phantasmagorical tribute to Benjamin's wandering eye.\u003c\/p\u003eFrances Cannon is a writer, professor, and artist currently living in Vermont. She is the Managing Director of the Sundog Poetry Center, and has previously taught at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Champlain College, the Vermont Commons School, and the University of Iowa. She has an MFA in creative writing from Iowa and a BA from the University of Vermont. She is the author and illustrator of several books: \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin: Reimagined\u003c\/i\u003e, MIT Press, \u003ci\u003eThe Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank\u003c\/i\u003e, Gold Wake Press, \u003ci\u003eTropicalia\u003c\/i\u003e, Vagabond Press, \u003ci\u003eUranian Fruit\u003c\/i\u003e, Honeybee Press, and \u003ci\u003ePredator\/Play\u003c\/i\u003e, Ethel Zine. She has worked for \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney’s\u003c\/i\u003e quarterly, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Lucky Peach\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Northwes\u003c\/i\u003et, \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Green Mountain Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLithub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Moscow Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Examined Life Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGastronomica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Lit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEdible \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, \u003ci\u003eMount Island\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFourth Genre\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVol. 1 Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302146265317,"sku":"NP9780262039963","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262039963.jpg?v=1767743576","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/walter-benjamin-reimagined-isbn-9780262039963","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}