“Out of heaven the stars we were reading a little as they tarried into exile.” — Brewster Ghiselin, from “Light” Images and Impressions Salt Lake City: Printmaking Department, University of Utah, 1969 Z239 U8 U8 1969 Project conception by Professor Russell T. Gordon, Department of Art. Work by students of the...
“‘Let us have peace.’ The expressions of these kindly feelings were not restricted to a section of the country, nor to a division of the people. They came from individual citizens of all nationalieties; from all denominations — the Protestant, the Catholic, and the Jew;...
“Who are we that fled the thousand lives we did not lead in order to escape the very one life that we were destined for?” The Architextures 1-7: The Man of Music Nathaniel Tarn (b. 1928) Sherman Oaks, CA: Ninja Press, 1999 PS3570 A635 A7 1999 Nathaniel Tarn was born...
“Love is enough: though the World be a-waning And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the sky be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, & the sea a dark wonder, And this...
“Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.” HERBERT’S REMAINS. OR, SUNDRY PIECES OF THAT SWEET… George Herbert (1593-1633) London: Printed for Timothy Garthwait, 1652 First edition George Herbert was a clergyman with the Church of England. He is known to this day...
Konkrete Poesie International Stuttgart: Edition H. Mayer, 1965 PT1241 C6 K66 1965 Thirteen letterpress prints in black and white by Carlo Belloli (1922-2003), Claus Bremer (1924-1996), Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), Pierre Garnier (b. 1928), Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), Eugen Gommringer (b. 1925), José Lino Grünewald (1931–2000), Josef Hirsal (1920-2003),...
“The Mexican paintings, a very small number of which has reached our times, excite a double interest, both from the light they throw on the mythology and history of the first inhabitants of America, and the apparent connexion with the hieroglyphical writing of certain nations...
Did you know January 18th is Thesaurus Day? You may be wondering how one celebrates Thesaurus Day. It’s simple. You just open a thesaurus....
“Still, wond’rous youth! each noble path pursue, On deathless glories fix thine ardent view: Still may the painter’s and the poet’s fire To aid thy pencil, and thy verse conspire!” — from “To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works” POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL… Phillis...
“The Three Hermits” Three old hermits took the air By a cold and desolate sea, First was muttering a prayer, Second rummaged for a flea; On a windy stone, the third, Giddy with his hundredth year, Sang unnoticed like a bird: ‘Though the Door of Death is near And what waits behind the door, Three...