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Brakhage's Childhood By Jane (Brakhage) Wodening Granary Books, $39.95
Avant-garde legend Stan Brakhage mythologized and poeticized childhood by invoking'the untutored eye" of the child that, as he put it in his 1963 book Metaphors on Vision,"must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception."Yet, as this revelatory new work demonstrates, Brakhage's own childhood was an adventure less of perception than will, the inchoate artist struggling to form an identity through an upbringing marked by abuse, neglect, loneliness,and fear.