![]() And books were a refuge and a companion for Marilyn during her bouts of insomnia.” ![]() In these newly discovered diary entries and poems, Marilyn reveals a young woman for whom writing and poetry were lifelines, the ways and means to discover who she was and to sort through her often tumultuous emotional life. “If some photographers thought it was funny to pose the world’s most famously voluptuous ‘dumb blonde” with a book-James Joyce! Heinrich Heine!-it wasn’t a joke to her. Of the two, we know which Monroe herself would have preferred you to remember – thanks to the collection of poems, notes and letters she wrote that have been collated together in Fragments, a book first published in 2010 and edited by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment.Īs Sam Kashner, in a review of Fragments for Vanity Fair, notes: What is the first photograph that comes to mind when you think of Marilyn Monroe? Sam Shaw’s subway grate photo, or Eve Arnold’s image of the superstar in a playground in Amagansett reading James Joyce’s Ulysses? ![]() ![]() Marilyn Monroe, photographed by Eve Arnold, 1955. ![]()
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