Worth it if only for a confirmation of the tumors I'd heard about the recording of "Maggot Brain". The photo inserts were gold. Wrapping this book up Worth it if only for a confirmation of the tumors I'd heard about the recording of "Maggot Brain". The photo inserts were gold. Wrapping this book up ensures that I'll be revisiting the works of the P-Funk Family over the coming weeks. ...more
The first edition was published in 2005, shortly after I graduated high school. I'd read a few of the single-standing later issues prior to the compenThe first edition was published in 2005, shortly after I graduated high school. I'd read a few of the single-standing later issues prior to the compendium's publishing. Doris had an immense impact on shaping my worldview, and I know I wasn't alone in that. I bought a copy of the second edition online a few weeks ago--I forget what prompted it, though I know I was a little tipsy when I hit the paypal button.
I wasn't worried if it would hold up or not, and for good reason. Crabb's writing still hits me in all of the right tender places. What I took away the most was exactly how much of an effect her writing had on my political/social beliefs--from her, I learned (or learned more nuance about) things that inform my work (both personally and professionally) to this day.
It was also FASCINATING to me to re-read this with the eyes of someone who's been living in the Bay Area for seven years, when I'd initially read her work as a recent high school graduate in Cleveland, Ohio. While reading the "a la carte" later issues, prior to the publishing of this anthology, Crabb had moved on from the Bay to other far-flung places in the Eastern US. However, these early issues situate her directly in the lap of where I'm living--and I can't quite explain what was turning over in my head between the girl who initially read these words, who and how she was, and then the girl who's absorbing and reflecting on them now, in 2018, but it sure was SOMETHING. Doris forever....more
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