{"id":2162,"date":"2013-02-20T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2013-02-20T16:05:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T20:05:42","slug":"kurt-cobain-letters-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/02\/20\/kurt-cobain-letters-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Cobain: Letters &amp; Journals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Cobain&#8217;s music and ideas have had a large impact on several generations, and the Core finds it worth acknowledging.\u00a0In this article, Maria Popova explores and provides pages from the letters and journals of grunge legend. She describes the collection:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The posthumously released\u00a0<strong><em>Kurt Cobain: Journals<\/em><\/strong> (<em>public library<\/em>) offers an unprecedented glimpse of the modern icon\u2019s inner life, from an anatomy of his eclectic influences \u2014 John Lennon, the Stooges, the Sex Pistols, PJ Harvey, Public Enemy, David Bowie \u2014 to a chronicle of his tumultuous psychoemotional landscape to sketches and drawings that would later grace Nirvana album covers and that, like those of\u00a0Sylvia Plath,\u00a0Queen Victoria, and\u00a0Richard Feynman, have been acclaimed for their artistic acumen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A sample from the pages she provides:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/02\/kurtcobainjournals6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2163\" height=\"650\" width=\"500\" title=\"kurtcobainjournals6\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/02\/kurtcobainjournals6.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/02\/kurtcobainjournals6.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/02\/kurtcobainjournals6-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>For the full article, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/WRn95U\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/WRn95U<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Cobain&#8217;s music and ideas have had a large impact on several generations, and the Core finds it worth acknowledging.\u00a0In this article, Maria Popova explores and provides pages from the letters and journals of grunge legend. She describes the collection: The posthumously released\u00a0Kurt Cobain: Journals (public library) offers an unprecedented glimpse of the modern icon\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[244,477,3856],"tags":[44888,44887,7153,44807,44886,1854,4142,607,3471,44892,3311,2734],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}