"All across America we travel, on and on and I remember Heather saying, All I need is a post office and a liquor store, but the sky is good, with reasons drawn clear like afternoon light." Parking Lots Clarence Major Illustrations by Laura Dronzek Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1992 PS3563 A39 P3 1992 Clarence Major was born in...

21 February, 2022 /

Critical Opalescence Alisa Golden Berkeley, CA: Never Mind the Press, 2004 N7433.4 G65 C75 2004 Critical Opalescence is a 2004 Artists’ book by Alisa Golden. The "Art By Mail" subscription book consists of three, letter-pressed pamphlets themed around an unstable form of water — the phenomenon from which the...

31 January, 2022 /

"Polygraphice is an art, so much imitating Nature, as that by proportional lines with answerable Colours, it teacheth to represent to the life (and that in plano) the forms of all corporeal things, with their respective passions."   Polygraphice; or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting,...

10 January, 2022 /

No doubt it is "the early bird that catches the worm." But, as the pillow-loving boy said to his father, "it is the early worm that gets caught." Early Rising, Or It is the early worm that gets caught William Mathews San Francisco, CA: The Cloister Press, 1938 PS2368 M8...

03 January, 2022 /

"Evening snow starts to fall outside. It starts as large fluffy flakes. Day after day snow falls, week after week. Will it never end? The sidewalks become like narrow alleyways. For every snowflake there is regret: for words never said, for trips made and not...

27 December, 2021 /

"Casserole cooking is easy as pie. A party is born in the wink of an eye." Holiday Party Casseroles Edna Beilenson Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1956 TX693 B45 1956 At the age of twenty-two, Peter Beilenson set up a small press in the basement of his father’s home...

20 December, 2021 /