You with the Darkness - Slingshot, you with the stone: It is over evening, I throw light behind myself. Fetch me down, take us Seriously. Four Poems Paul Celan (1920-1970) New York: Granary Books, 1999 PT2605 E4 S313 1999 Paul Celan was born Paul Antschel in Czernovitz, Romania to German-speaking Jewish parents. His surname was later...

05 November, 2020 /

In Spring 2019 students from Spanish 3070 Literary Analysis attended the Rare Books Classroom to consider the physical aspects of literary texts and to decipher first-hand the impact of examining a book and text as physical object. The viewing offered students a chance to see...

16 May, 2019 /

“Thus shall ye think of this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, A flash of lightning in a summer’s cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.” — Buddha Shakyamuni REMEMBER THE LIGHT Mary Risala Laird Quelquefois Press, 2007 Artist’s statement in an email to the curator:...

18 May, 2017 /

Although I have no beauty, colour & perfume Am I not after all the grass of His garden?” — Saadi COLOURS OF PERSIA: PERCEPTIONS, ACCOUNTS… Susan Allix (b. 1943) London, 2007 N7433.4 A57 C65 2007 From the artist: “The text is arranged around the headings of five cities – Tehran, Mashad, Yazd,...

04 January, 2017 /

“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...

17 October, 2016 /