Bucky A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some small areas of very light creasing and soiling to the back cover, but very little wear overall. Lovely classical design to this study of the idiosyncratic inventor, the perfect framework to showcase both tension and Pythagorean unity in the way it contains the polyhedral illustrations of Fuller's futuristic concepts. Kenner, appropriately, also wrote an introduction to geodesic math, but was primarily a literary scholar who penned books about modernists including Joyce and Beckett (bizarrely, his oeuvre also includes an appreciation of Looney Tunes innovator Chuck Jones). He studied under Marshall McLuhan and dedicated his influential 1951 book, The Poetry of Ezra Pound, to the Canadian philosopher, who had introduced Kenner to Pound in 1948 while the poet was incarcerated at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC. Years later, Kenner would say of McLuhan, 'He could be awfully controlling.' 338 pp.