In their own words
April 19, 2011 § 3 Comments
If you were a writer and you were about to make your self-portrait, how would you draw yourself? Would you choose to depict an extract from your literary work perhaps? Artist and author John Sokol creates drawings of literary figures, whose outline of the face is crafted from the very words of their own works.
Jorge-Luis Borges and the Secret Miracle
See more portraits after the jump
Toni Morrison and The Song of Solomonn
e.e. cummings and some of his Selected Poems
Charles Baudelaire and Les Fleurs du Mal
Henrik Ibsen and Hedda Gabler
via Flavorwire
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- Color outside the line
- In literature / hidden haikus I have found / unexpectedly
- What kind of reader are you?
- What should I read?
- Write like Kafka
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