{"product_id":"songs-for-the-witch-woman-deluxe-edition-by-jack-parsons-and-marjorie-cameron","title":"Songs for the Witch Woman (Deluxe edition) by Jack Parsons and Marjorie Cameron","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeluxe edition, limited to 156 hand-numbered copies only. Black quarter morocco, top edge silver and lined cloth slipcase. Published by Fulgur Press in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Some minor smudges\/fingerprints on the front cover and slipcase, but should be easily removed with a cloth. Otherwise a fine copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are few modern love stories as passionate and poignant as the relationship between rocket scientist Jack Parsons and his artist lover, Marjorie Cameron. At once a muse, occult student and primal force of nature – a woman he proclaimed as his ‘elemental’ in a letter to Aleister Crowley – Cameron fascinated, troubled and inspired Parsons.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSongs for the Witch Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a project born from this turbulent love story. A series of poems written by Parsons reveal his feelings toward his often absent lover. And beside these words are images from the hand of Cameron, illustrating and echoing the intimate themes. After Parsons’ tragic death in June 1952 we find the notebook in which this work was recorded continues, as a bereaved Cameron keeps a diary of her magical working in Lamb Canyon, California. In the dark desert her words become a raw lament as she attempts to gain contact with her Holy Guardian Angel. And throughout the working, the memory of Jack is never far from her mind. Now published more than sixty years after it was written,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSongs for the Witch Woman\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a testament to lasting power of love and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book represents a creative collaboration between two of the most important names in 20th century occultism. It includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe poems, drawings and diary entries published together for the first time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA facsimile of the original 1950s notebook with text by Jack Parsons and illustrations by Marjorie Cameron.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe texts have also been corrected and typeset alongside a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esecond\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esuite of pen and ink drawings that Marjorie Cameron produced for the work after 1952.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContextual commentaries from William Breeze, George Pendle and Margaret Haines.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Watkins Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58137932366198,"sku":null,"price":595.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/0635\/6656\/files\/IMG_5907.jpg?v=1782226203","url":"https:\/\/shop.watkinsbooks.com\/products\/songs-for-the-witch-woman-deluxe-edition-by-jack-parsons-and-marjorie-cameron","provider":"Watkins Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}