Past cure I am, now Reason is past care, And frantic-mad with evermore unrest; My thoughts and my discourse as madmen’s are, At random from the truth vainly expressed; For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. Duet Marie C....
“A catt may look on a king” Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish… James Howell (1594? – 1666) London: Printed by J.G. for Samuel Thompson, 1660 First and only edition James Howell, born in Wales and educated at Oxford, began his literary career in 1640 with the political allegory, Dendrologia: Dodona’s...
“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before” THE RAVEN Edgar Allan Poe (1909-1949) Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1980 This is the first book from Alan James Robinson and his Cheloniidae Press. Text is hand-set and printed by Harold McGrath in Bruce Rogers’ 24pt. Centaur type in...
“Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned too.” — Heinrich Heine, 1823 Celsius 233 Philip Zimmermann Tuscon, AZ: Spaceheater Editions, 2015 N7433.4 Z55 C45 2015 From the artist: I started doing research on the history of book-burning after seeing a video posted by the Islamic State/Daesh...
“We have all our elephants to see.” Empire Builders Carol Inderieden and Chandler O’Leary Tacoma, WA: Anagram Press, 2015 N7433.4 I52 E47 2015 From the authors’ essay: “To see the elephant was to embark on a quest for riches and prosperity…The elephant is an illusion, an impossible promise like a...
“It is a prayer for the rebirth of a way of writing with breath.” CHANCCANI QUIPU Cecilia Vicuña New York: Granary Books, 2012 Quipu, or knotted cords, encoded the spoken language of the Inca, representing both single sounds and whole words, and was used as a form of communication...
“Animals should not use human language.” Alice’s adventures in wonderland… Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) London: Macmillan and Co., 1866 First published edition Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s now-famous Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was intended solely for Alice Liddell and her two sisters. Dodgson made the story up to entertain the bored children...
«Лолита , свет моей жизни , огонь моих чресел . Грех mой , душа моя . Ло -ли –та…” Лолита Владимир Набоков (1899-1977) New York: Phaedra, Inc., Publishers, 1967 First hardcover edition in Russian First published in Paris in 1955, then in New York City in 1958 and...
An inflammatory guide: banned & challenged… Jessica Spring Tacoma, WA: Springtide Press, 2012 xN7433.4 S713 I54 2012 From the colophon: “…printed by hand to commemorate Banned Books Week…” Letterpress printed. Accordion folded pages attached to match-book style binding with staples. View the original article on the OpenBook Blog...
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. — William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII The Poems of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1939 PR2841 A2 K5 1939 Edited by George Lyman Kittredge, Gurney Professor of English Literature,...