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ISBN 978 1 910010 36 5
96pp, 234 x 142
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Reviews and articles
Steven Heller interviews Peter Blegvad about Milk: Through a Glass Darkly
The Daily Heller: The Udder Truth About Milk
“…on one level the book is merely a compendium but on another it amounts to a kind of autobiography, a portrait of the self, mediated through milk. Glowing, elemental, otherworldly and full of natural goodness…”
Ian Sansom, ‘A 50-year obsession with the white stuff’, The Spectator
“…the associative method of arrangement—which anonymises its quotations—simultaneously draws poetry out of other texts while adding milk to dairy-free ones.”
Jeremy Noel-Tod, ‘Pinks #5: The Smell of Light’, Some Flowers Soon
Anna Russell visits Peter Blegvad to talk about Milk: Through a Glass Darkly
‘Milk: The Book!’, The New Yorker
Peter Blegvad | Milk: Through a Glass Darkly
For over fifty years, since he was in his early twenties, Peter Blegvad has been collecting quotations about milk, the primary substance of nutrition and of wonder. All the while his belief in the numinousness of milk has been compounded, that in its opacity and fluid density it is a thing full of both meaning and mystery.
Milk: Through a Glass Darkly gathers these quotations into a mosaic, or literary collage, consisting of almost three hundred and fifty separate passages that consider “light, smell, writing, mothers, fathers, colour, nothingness, regression, gender, race, food, cattle, ectoplasm, anti-matter, the moon, sex and insanity amongst other things”.
It is, in its enigmatic way, a kind of Lactatus Logico-Philosophicus…
Peter Blegvad is a musician, songwriter, artist, writer, teacher and broadcaster. Born in New York, he lives in London with his wife, the painter Chloë Fremantle. He has been making music since the mid-1970s with Slapp Happy, Faust, Henry Cow, John Greaves, the Golden Palominos, John Zorn, Andy Partridge and others. As a broadcaster, he created many dozens of ‘eartoons’ (audio cartoons) and several radio plays for BBC Radio 3. His comic strip, The Book of Leviathan, is published in the UK by Sort Of Books and is also available in Mandarin, Cantonese and French. In 2000 he was awarded the Ordre de la Grande Gidouille by the Collège de ’Pataphysique, Paris, and in 2011 was elected president of the London Institute of ’Pataphysics. A book about his life-long epistemological project, Imagine, Observe, Remember, was published by Uniformbooks in 2020.