The Pepper Shaker. / By Walter Hart Blumenthal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blumenthal, Walter Hart, 1883-1969.

Contributor:

Prairie Press.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

18 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Iowa City] : Privately Printed [at the Prairie Press], 1964.

Contents:

Obiter Trivia or Logograms

Pinchbeck Midas

Cynic's Vade Mecum

Capsule Credo

Comédie Humaine

Upsidedownia

Dottle from a Old Pipe

Tall Tale of the Hereafter [Benjamin Franklin Remembered].

Notes:

"Printed ... from hand-set Centaur and Arrighi types. The paper is Strathmore laid text and the cover Fabriano, from Italy. Limited to one hundred copies."

"Poetry gives wings to words. It stirs the emotions beyond the potential of prose. This sheaf of verses lacks any pretension to poetry. True poetry is marked by ecstasy or by exaltation--the enduring expression of inspiration. It may have simplicity and yet be poetic. But the utterance of true poetry echoes sublimity and holds intimations of immortality. There are in these pages only lesser tokens of mood and meter ..."--Foreword.

"Blue paper wrapper lettered in black on front.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has address of Walter Hart Blumenthal typed on back wrapper.

OCLC:

4877977