“The coastline dances along the main highway, sometimes following the road’s straight-line lead, then moving in and away in a jitterbug step, twice dipping under a stretch of bridge — a tango flourish” “On a map the shore’s edge is a fixed line. But in reality she’s...
“Let all the strains of joy mingle in my last song — the joy that makes the earth flow over in the riotous excess of the grass, the joy that sets the twin brothers, life and death, dancing over the wide world, the joy that...
“…do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou has not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!” — John Keats from Ode on a Grecian Urn In Memoriam — Kathleen Thompson Kathleen Thompson of Michael R. Thompson Rare Books worked for several Los Angeles antiquarian booksellers,...
“Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.” HERBERT’S REMAINS. OR, SUNDRY PIECES OF THAT SWEET… George Herbert (1593-1633) London: Printed for Timothy Garthwait, 1652 First edition George Herbert was a clergyman with the Church of England. He is known to this day...
“Still, wond’rous youth! each noble path pursue, On deathless glories fix thine ardent view: Still may the painter’s and the poet’s fire To aid thy pencil, and thy verse conspire!” — from “To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works” POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL… Phillis...
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,...
“Nothing doing.” NIGHT STREET Barbara Luck West Burke, VT: Janus Press, 1993 N7433.4 L83 N5 1993 Ten poems concerning the dilemma of a young woman in the city faced with retaining her humanity without being victimized. On colored sheets of paper collaged on black silkscreened pages opposite highly colored offset...
image from “The Poems of William Shakespeare, According to the Text of the Original Copies, Including the Lyrics, Songs, and Snatches Found in His Dramas,” Essex House Press, 1899 PR2841 A2 E55, Rare Books You are invited to join the University of Utah’s Friends of the...