Cat Poems ManuscriptsAcross the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors; cats cast a mirror on their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotize, frustrate and delight. And to poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses (Charles Baudelaire: the sole source of amusement in ones lodgings) as they go about purring, prowling, hunting, playing,
Bound in blue cloth and blind-stamped with Constantin Brancusi's "Symbol of James Joyce
and other aspects of interior décor
purity represented by the white lily or spiritual awakening by the bloom of the lotus
featuring entries by scholars from the Nationalmuseum
from parks to bars
Douglass exposed the hypocrisy of a nation that enshrined the inalienable rights of man yet enslaved millions
Emily Dickinson scorned the conventions of her day in her approach to writing
often oblivious to their so-called masters (Jorge Luis Borges: “you live in other time
and at her death she left behind many poems
These woodless pencils are packed full of color
An individual book can tell us many things about the ways books have been used
Here's the First Lines of Literature Tea Towel
