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Concordance
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"'Only art works are capable of transmitting chthonic echo-signals,' Susan Howe has stated. In Concordance, the limited edition of her new collage poems, she has created a fresh body of art, made from slivers of poetry and marginalia, snipped from concordance editions of Milton, Swift, Herbert, Browning, and Dickinson as well as from facsimile editions of Coleridge, Yeats, the new Poems of T. S. Eliot, and also from various fields guides to birds, rocks, and trees. Inspired in part by the wonderful flower collages of the eighteenth-century British artist Mrs. Delany, here Howe takes up her scissors and carries further what one critic has called her 'poetic installations on the margins of the American literary wilderness.' Dipping into and snipping from such odd volumes as The Observer's Book of English Moths and The Secret Languages of Ireland, Howe here reasserts the polysemous nature of words half-spoken--and in her skimming flight transfers half-grasped meanings whole to the reader. Prefaced by the prose poem "Envoi," which meditates and puns on names, sources, and affinities ('Echo echo I love you breathe breathe'), Concordance presents a body of fiercely non-conformist poems. These works--full of transplantations and ghostly whispers, excisions and erasures, fragments of half-remembered bonds and newly felt correspondences--seem to lift off the page in 'rotating prisms.' Coursing through Concordance is an exultant, savage spirit of salvage, redeeming stories that seemingly can never be told, and yet (with the witchcraft of the omitted words somehow edging themselves back in again) making the old new and bringing--via split, treasured words--lost worlds home. Concordance, a first edition published in 2019, is printed letterpress on Somerset and Whatman in an edition of forty-six, and bound in Japanese Teachest by Claudia Cohen. The book comprises seventy pages of Howe's poems, accompanied by 'Envoi,' issued as a chapbook printed on handmade Whatman. The two books are enclosed in a slipcase made of Teachest and Satogami."--Publisher's prospectus (viewed 2019 February 6).
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Charles Kingsley correspondence
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The collection consists of letters written by Charles Kingsley to Dr. James Hunt (1833-1869), an ethnologist and writer on stammering. Kingsley consults Hunt about his own stuttering and describes its effects. Kingsley also discusses Darwin's evolutionary theory and his friendship with Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895). The collection also includes four letters from Kingsley's wife, Fanny Grenfell Kingsley, to James Hunt.
mssHM 32204-32261
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Courtenay, Tom 1961 II
Manuscripts
Material documenting the personal and professional life of artist Don Bachardy, including artworks, personal papers, and photographs. Artworks consist of portraits Bachardy created primarily between 1961 and 2002, with some early works from the 1940s and 1950s, and include drawings in pencil or pen and ink, as well as acrylic paintings.
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Charles Kingsley correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters written by Charles Kingsley to Dr. James Hunt (1833-1869), an ethnologist and writer on stammering. Kingsley consults Hunt about his own stuttering and describes its effects. Kingsley also discusses Darwin's evolutionary theory and his friendship with Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895). The collection also includes four letters from Kingsley's wife, Fanny Grenfell Kingsley, to James Hunt.
mssHM 32204-32261
Munsell Colored Papers for the Munsell Color System
Visual Materials
One sample set of colored papers entitled Munsell Colored Papers for the Munsell Color System, manufactured by Wadsworth, Howland & Co., Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1920. On the back cover is printed: "Sample set of the five middle colors red, yellow, green, blue and purple, with a lighter and a darker value of each, also white, middle gray and black." This color sample booklet is "bound" with a single brass brad.
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Hein, Tom 64 [I- standing]
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Material documenting the personal and professional life of artist Don Bachardy, including artworks, personal papers, and photographs. Artworks consist of portraits Bachardy created primarily between 1961 and 2002, with some early works from the 1940s and 1950s, and include drawings in pencil or pen and ink, as well as acrylic paintings.
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