As if some little Arctic flower Upon the polar hem – Went wandering down the Latitudes Until it puzzled came To continents of summer – To firmaments of sun – To strange, bright crowds of flowers – And birds, of foreign tongue! – Emily Dickinson The Northwest Passage was the name given to the...
“But I must gather knots of flowers and buds, and garlands gay; For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The May Queen”...
Rich in imagery and fantastical in nature, La Trama Celeste by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Para Las Seis Cuerdas by Jorge Luis Borges are the two newest additions to the Rare Books Latin American collection. Every country has a history – that is certain. If we...
“Rare Books helped me develop a different perspective on literary analysis.” – Lyuba Basin (Class of 2015 and graduate student in Comparative Literature/Cultural Studies, The University of Utah) Lyuba Basin, former Rare Books Curator, writes from Argentina, where she is spending eight months on a Fulbright...
“I think seeing first editions especially, and seeing them in the way that they would have come out is really powerful because then you kind of get to experience it in the way similar to someone would during that time.” — Lyuba Basin, Curator, Rare...