Here are two quieting readings by Sylvia Plath of her poems “Lady Lazarus” and “Daddy”, which I hope you take a moment for. Don’t watch the videos, or continue with anything else for that matter, close your eyes, wipe your mind, and listen openly.

Mr. Roversi, if you have a free moment this summer I’d like to visit with you, to drink an obscure vintage while watching the Seine meander through Paris, then go to shoot couture under the warm dusty lights in your studio, well well into the night, well into the models’ tired eyes, before finally retiring for a cigarette, a bite, and a talk about the caustic lingerings of a Polaroid’s smell.

p.s. okay, Paolo, this Vogue Italia “Storm” spread was tops as far as I’m concerned.

photo: Vogue Italia “Storm,” ©Paolo Roversi

photo: Vogue Italia “Storm,” ©Paolo Roversi

photo: Vogue Italia “Storm,” ©Paolo Roversi

(for everyone else, more at Paolo Roversi’s site and his rep’s, Vincent Simonet’s)