“OK is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as glacier. In the next 200 years all our main glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know...
Le Mat (The Fool) The flesh, the sensitive life, the spirit in search of experience — and atonement. A young man, breathing and savoring the freshness of the morning of life. The "dreamer" that is a part of every creative person.Lithographed on Linweave L'Aiglon. Color: Flame....
"Printing is the Inseparable Companion of Achievement" — Roy Trewin PorteRoy Trewin Porte was born on May 8, 1876 in Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada. When he was just five years old he moved to the states with his widowed mother, settling in Casselton, North Dakota. Porte’s mother likely did...
“If a scholar only stays in one place, he will be blocked by one small river and become narrow-minded and ignorant. He must travel everywhere to see human affairs, the social customs of the north and the south, mountains and rivers, and to broaden his...
The Rare Books Department welcomes you all back to the J. Willard Marriott Library, and invites you to visit our latest exhibition, Roar of Distant Breakers, now on display in the Special Collections Gallery on level four.This exhibition was curated by Luise Poulton, the former Managing...
“The tongue lies on the table, writing, writhing, spelling out the breath of its efforts in an unseemly desire to be seen.” — Johanna Drucker The Word Made Flesh Johanna Drucker New York: Bow and Arrow Press, 1989 PS3554 R75 W6 1989Arch Kitty Maryatt Claremont, CA: Scripps College Press, 2010 N7433.35 U6...
“O stitching is witching And hemming as well, But what is distressing, Is turning a fell. I’m sick of such seaming, And ready to cry, But I hear the word ringing, Try little one, try...
"A book is an architectural space where you can wander about, looking back and forth, all around, in and out, opening and closing doors — it's your room." Ingress / Egress Ellen Knudson Gainesville, FL: Crooked Letter Press, 2015 N7433.4 K58 I54 2015Celebrated annually, Read Across America Day was...
“When asked what one is doing, one can only explain it as ‘something else.’ Now one does something big, now one does something small, now another big thing, now another little thing. Always it is something else. We can talk about a thing, but we...
