Apr 19, 2019 Book of the Week — Le Nouveau Cuisinier Royal et Bourgeois
Le nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois...
Mar 25, 2019 Donation adds to Latin hymn fragments: “He himself shall come and shall make us saved.”
(ip)se veniet et salvos no- s faciet. Co. ecce virgo concipiet et pariet fili- um et vocabitur no- men eius hemanuel. Off(ertoriu)m prope es tu domine et omnes He himself shall come and shall make us saved. Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel. You are near,...
Mar 04, 2019 Press of the Week – Untide Press
“Here on the edge we look east to the West, west to the East, and cannot resolve them. We can only watch; watch and prepare; and bide on the time when what we are, and that for which we have taken this stand, can be...
Feb 25, 2019 Book of the Week — Five Poems
"Someone leans near And sees the salt your eyes have shed." Five Poems Toni Morrison Las Vegas, NV: Rainmaker Editions, 2002 PS3563 O8749 F58 2002 Silhouettes by Kara E. Walker. From the artist's website: "New York-based artist Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality,...
Feb 22, 2019 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment: “And whatever with bonds you shall have bound upon earth will be bound strongly in heaven.”
Quodcumque vinclis super ter- ram strinxeris, erit in astris reli- gatum fortiter. And whatever with bonds you shall have bound upon earth will be bound strongly in heaven. Et quod resolvis in terris arbitrio, e- rit solutum super radium. In fi- ne mundi iudex And what you unbind/loosen on earth will be loosened upon in heaven on your authority....
Feb 14, 2019 Straight From the Heart
“Scynte Valentine of custome yeere by yeere Men have an usuance, in this regioun, To loke and serche Cupides kalendere, And chose theyr choyse by grete affecioun, Such as ben move with Cupides mocioun Takyng theyre choyse as theyre sort doth falle; But I love oone whiche excelleth alle.” -- John...
Feb 11, 2019 We Recommend — Stranger & Stranger
"This way. Close your eyes Then. I say Close your eyes. Stranger & Stranger Katharine Coles (b. 1959) Salt Lake City, UT: Red Butte Press, 2016 From the colophon: “This collaboration evolved over a decade through artistic dialogue between poet Katharine Coles and painter Maureen O’Hara Ure. This imaginary collection...
Feb 08, 2019 Books of the week — Off with her head!
“The Queene of Scotland is your prisoner, let her be honorably entreated, but yet surely guarded.” – William Parry A true and plaine declaration of the horrible… At London by C. Barker Cum priuilegio, 1585 First edition, second issue A contemporary report of William Parry’s plot to assassinate Queen...
Jan 31, 2019 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment, Part D: “…of the holy found rest through him.”
(san)ctoru(m) requieverunt per eu(m). Ps. D(omi)ne...
Jan 30, 2019 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment, Part C: “…at his right hand bees miraculously erected a honeycomb of honey.”
dextera eius apes favu(m) mellis mirabiliter ex- truxerunt. Ps(almus) Beat(us) vir qui non abiit...