The Worker Poet

Travels: Collected Writings 1950-1993

Paul Bowles

HarperCollins

New York

2010

 

 

"He made a name for himself as a composer, writing the music for a number of films and stage-plays. He was a music ethnologist, an early recorder of ethnic songs and melodies in remote villages in Morocco and Mexico. He wrote novels and short stories. He wrote poems. He translated novels and poems from Spanish, French and Arabic, and created more than a dozen books with the Moroccan storyteller Mohammed Mrabet."

-from the introduction by Paul Theroux

"Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost."

-Paul Bowles, Notes Mailed at Nagercoil, 1957