Herbert Pföstl
@herbert-pfostl.bsky.social
Fields for plant, stone, and animal forms.
Emblem banners of departing lands.
Emblem banners of departing lands.
Accessible but veiled.
September 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Accessible but veiled.
Letter to a friend.
September 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Letter to a friend.
Absolutely! There is also this one, Satie Remembered – which is quite wonderful (but strangely not part of Penman's bibliography).
July 31, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Absolutely! There is also this one, Satie Remembered – which is quite wonderful (but strangely not part of Penman's bibliography).
My painting "No Omen but Awe" is on view at the permanent collection gallery at the Bolinas Museum. Come west & stop by.
July 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My painting "No Omen but Awe" is on view at the permanent collection gallery at the Bolinas Museum. Come west & stop by.
Very few get the biographer they deserve—R. Crumb got lucky. Dan Nadel's wonderfully candid chronicle does not recoil, moralize, or whitewash. It's my book of the month at the New Museum. @newmuseum.bsky.social.
Full review here:
www.newmuseum.org/articles/boo...
Full review here:
www.newmuseum.org/articles/boo...
July 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Very few get the biographer they deserve—R. Crumb got lucky. Dan Nadel's wonderfully candid chronicle does not recoil, moralize, or whitewash. It's my book of the month at the New Museum. @newmuseum.bsky.social.
Full review here:
www.newmuseum.org/articles/boo...
Full review here:
www.newmuseum.org/articles/boo...
"...a handful of dust." || Postcard to a friend.
June 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"...a handful of dust." || Postcard to a friend.
Yuri Knorozov, who studied Mayan hieroglyphic writing.
Why is there no book about him?
Why is there no book about him?
May 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Yuri Knorozov, who studied Mayan hieroglyphic writing.
Why is there no book about him?
Why is there no book about him?
Got myself some birthday presents @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Got myself some birthday presents @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social
László F. Földényi's "The Long Shadow of the Guillotine" arrives in the mail on the same day as Julia Kristeva's "The Severed Head." Coincidence? Elective affinity? An omen?
January 29, 2025 at 5:46 AM
László F. Földényi's "The Long Shadow of the Guillotine" arrives in the mail on the same day as Julia Kristeva's "The Severed Head." Coincidence? Elective affinity? An omen?
the things of this world: snake.
January 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
the things of this world: snake.
That's nice to know, Paul, thank you. Campo is a revelation. I have known about her via this beautiful German edition from Matthes & Seitz.
January 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
That's nice to know, Paul, thank you. Campo is a revelation. I have known about her via this beautiful German edition from Matthes & Seitz.
Thank you, Kim. Incidentally I am reading his last letters right now.
January 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Thank you, Kim. Incidentally I am reading his last letters right now.
Departed there and landed here.
Carried all my twitters with me––from 2016 until now.
May this port prove solid.
Carried all my twitters with me––from 2016 until now.
May this port prove solid.
January 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Departed there and landed here.
Carried all my twitters with me––from 2016 until now.
May this port prove solid.
Carried all my twitters with me––from 2016 until now.
May this port prove solid.
Cristina Campo wrote about the "accumulation of time and secrets" in "The Unforgivable," one of my favorite books @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social in 2024.
Good books are sanctuaries that can be shared.
ptreyesbooks.com/list/best-bo...
ptreyesbooks.com/herberts-fav...
Here's to a wondrous new year.
Good books are sanctuaries that can be shared.
ptreyesbooks.com/list/best-bo...
ptreyesbooks.com/herberts-fav...
Here's to a wondrous new year.
January 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Cristina Campo wrote about the "accumulation of time and secrets" in "The Unforgivable," one of my favorite books @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social in 2024.
Good books are sanctuaries that can be shared.
ptreyesbooks.com/list/best-bo...
ptreyesbooks.com/herberts-fav...
Here's to a wondrous new year.
Good books are sanctuaries that can be shared.
ptreyesbooks.com/list/best-bo...
ptreyesbooks.com/herberts-fav...
Here's to a wondrous new year.
Osip Mandelstam - Two Poems.
Translated by Andrew Davis.
Hand set and printed letterpress by The Brother In Elysium.
Edition of 175 copies.
thebrotherinelysium.com/shop/osip-ma...
Translated by Andrew Davis.
Hand set and printed letterpress by The Brother In Elysium.
Edition of 175 copies.
thebrotherinelysium.com/shop/osip-ma...
December 31, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Osip Mandelstam - Two Poems.
Translated by Andrew Davis.
Hand set and printed letterpress by The Brother In Elysium.
Edition of 175 copies.
thebrotherinelysium.com/shop/osip-ma...
Translated by Andrew Davis.
Hand set and printed letterpress by The Brother In Elysium.
Edition of 175 copies.
thebrotherinelysium.com/shop/osip-ma...
...and they held out as long as they could.
For Kirston @epidotepress, these days & all days.
For Kirston @epidotepress, these days & all days.
December 8, 2024 at 8:12 AM
...and they held out as long as they could.
For Kirston @epidotepress, these days & all days.
For Kirston @epidotepress, these days & all days.
Like Whitman, Chesterton thought that the mere fact of existing is so prodigious that no misfortune should exempt us from a kind of cosmic gratitude.
- Jorge Luis Borges / Robert Bresson, Mouchette
- Jorge Luis Borges / Robert Bresson, Mouchette
December 8, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Like Whitman, Chesterton thought that the mere fact of existing is so prodigious that no misfortune should exempt us from a kind of cosmic gratitude.
- Jorge Luis Borges / Robert Bresson, Mouchette
- Jorge Luis Borges / Robert Bresson, Mouchette
December 8, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Friends,
I have a few last copies of the broadside edition of my text on the immoderately experimental, radiantly rare & radically strange conjuror of future sounds Charles Ives. Letterpress printing & collage work by Jon Beacham of The Brother In Elysium. DM me if interested.
I have a few last copies of the broadside edition of my text on the immoderately experimental, radiantly rare & radically strange conjuror of future sounds Charles Ives. Letterpress printing & collage work by Jon Beacham of The Brother In Elysium. DM me if interested.
December 8, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Friends,
I have a few last copies of the broadside edition of my text on the immoderately experimental, radiantly rare & radically strange conjuror of future sounds Charles Ives. Letterpress printing & collage work by Jon Beacham of The Brother In Elysium. DM me if interested.
I have a few last copies of the broadside edition of my text on the immoderately experimental, radiantly rare & radically strange conjuror of future sounds Charles Ives. Letterpress printing & collage work by Jon Beacham of The Brother In Elysium. DM me if interested.
December 8, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Artaud (as "Knife Grinder") in Fritz Lang's 1934 "Liliom.
December 8, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Artaud (as "Knife Grinder") in Fritz Lang's 1934 "Liliom.
The last issue of IM LABYRINTH has been published. It includes my painting "no omen but awe" (below) and a text piece as bow to some pictorial wonders of the dead. Relics of light for me––and (maybe) you. Special thanks to Harald Wolf for his curiosity & candor across the years.
December 8, 2024 at 8:11 AM
The last issue of IM LABYRINTH has been published. It includes my painting "no omen but awe" (below) and a text piece as bow to some pictorial wonders of the dead. Relics of light for me––and (maybe) you. Special thanks to Harald Wolf for his curiosity & candor across the years.