Last year, on May 22, Rare Books lost our dear friend, Marie Christensen Dern. On that day, like the rest of the world, we were sheltering in place. We were locked out of our office, and more disorientingly, out of the Rare Books Vault. We...
Who vagrant transitory comets sees, Wonders because they’re rare; but a new star Whose motion with the firmament agrees, Is miracle; for there no new things are. — John Donne Anno 1664 den. 18. Decembris… Martin Zimmermann Augsburg?: M. Zimmerman, 1664 QB724 Z55 1664 Broadside giving an account of a comet seen in...
“…yours until the final ghosts from darkened fires rise like filaments on the low blue-grey edge of light and air, to shine like music must, momentarily, to the blind.” Autumn’s End Christopher Buckley Lagniappe Press, 1992 PS3552 U339 A98 1992 Printed in October 1992 with 12 point Dante. The poem first appeared in “Hubbub,” Fall 1992....
“The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon…” The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon… Tom Robbins (b. 1932) PS3568 O233 B4 1990z Broadside printed ca. 1990s. Printer unknown. View the original article on the OpenBook Blog...
