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Turkish pears in August : twenty ramages

Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
Title
Turkish pears in August : twenty ramages / by Robert Bly.
Published
[Stockholm, Wis.] : Midnight Paper Sales, 2005.
Physical Description
37 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 15 x 20 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2017 334: Copy 72, signed by the author and the printer.
Notes
Ramage is a form of poetry invented by Robert Bly consisting of eight-line stanzas and concentrating on certain sound combinations.
"150 copies printed by Gaylord Schanilec on Zerkal [sic] paper in the spring of 2005. The cover paper was made for the edition by Bridget O'Malley. The Italian Old Style type and Monument titling were cast by Scott King ... [no.] 78/150"--Colophon.
In slipcase, as issued.
Variant and related titles
Title on slipcase: 20 ramages
Twenty ramages
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 05, 2017
Contents
Turkish pears
So much time
Orion the great walker
For the old gnostics
The watcher of vowels
The hermit at dawn
What is sorrow for?
A ramage for the mountain
Silent in the moonlight
The pheasant chicks
Lovers in the river
The big-nostrilled moose
The grackles
The bear's cabin
The mother turtle
About Henry David Thoreau
Heard whispers
Tristan and Isolde
The slim fir-seeds
Wanting sumptuous heavens.
Genre/Form
Typefaces (Type evidence) - Italian Old Style.
Typefaces (Type evidence) - Monument.
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