These
maps remind me of all the radio stories I love most. After
all, most radio is a boring salaryman, waking up before you
and me to announce the headlines or play the hits to some
predetermined demographic. Yet some radio stories elbow their
way into the world in defiance of that unrelentingly practical
mission, with the same goal Denis Wood’s maps have:
to take a form that’s not intended for feeling or mystery
and make it breathe with human life. Click
to read more of the Ira Glass introduction on the Siglio website.
-IRA
GLASS (from his introduction)
Definitely
worth buying, to pick up and consider again and again, this
book is a poetic naming of a neighborhood that will almost
certainly make you reconsider your own sense of place.
-Amara
Holstein from the Portland Monthly
...an
epic love poem to an idealized vision of what cartography
can be, beautifully realized....The enjoyment of Everything
Sings is not just about the maps, however. Wood’s opening
chapter...is a brief but invigorating stroll through 20th
century intellectualism. The texts paired with each map are
a well-balanced mish-mash of history, commentary, poetry,
and craft. Though the book lends itself to a casual flip-through,
taking in the maps simply as individual pieces of art, Everything
Sings is meant to be read.
-Rob
Tennant from Fanzine
Astonishing.
So much so that this review almost died aborning. Doing genuine
justice to this slim but subversive and innovative volume
would require a critique the length of a full Annals
article and would also call for analytical and communicative
skills that might be beyond my grasp.
-Wilbur
Zelinsky from the Annals. |
