Fore-edge

Fore-edge photograph of a collection of programs issued by the Writer’s Forum reading series at SUNY Brockport, 1968-1975. The collection was complied by poet William Heyen, one-time director of the Forum. Each program includes a poem by and a photograph of the featured poet; most are signed by the poet. Poets represented include: W.S. Merwin, Diane Wakoski, John Hollander, Richard Wilbur, Galway Kinnell, William Stafford, Robert Creeley, John Berryman, Robert Bly, Nadine Gordimer, Louis Simpson, Erica Jong, C.K. Williams, Richard Howard, Carolyn Kizer, Ishmael Reed, Robert Bly, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, Richard Hugo, Marge Piercy, James Tate, William Matthews, Richard Eberhart, among others. Related collections: William Heyen Papers; Heyen Papers Addition; Al Poulin and Boa Editions Papers; additional materials may be located in the Beinecke Library’s Uncataloged Acquisitions Database.

Thunder Riders & The Ramblin’ Galoot

Selected posters and lobby advertisements featuring key scenes and lead actors in silent western films, circa 1910-1930.

Complete description of the collection: Western Silent Film Lobby Card Collection (Call Number: WA MSS S-2553); additional images from the collection: Western Silent Film Lobby Card Collection Images.

“Thunder Riders”

Buddy Roosevelt in “The Ramblin’ Galoot”

“The Pony Express,” A James Cruze Production

“The Covered Wagon,” A James Cruze Production

Don Coleman in “The Bronc Stomper”

Tom Mix and “Tony” the Wonder Horse in “Horseman of the Plains”

Yawp!

Selected manuscript fragments from the Walt Whitman Collection (YCAL MSS 202)

As in a Swoon

Man-of-War Bird

Rise Lurid Stars

With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea

la gente grita

Mural painted by Native American writer Leslie Silko (detail, context)
(Uncat MSS 705 Box 11)

Little Sunbeams

. . . and harried pets. [circa 1890, in the collection of the Beinecke Library
as part of a salesman’s sample book, including Young People’s History of the World. Possibly never published.]

Oratorical Gestures

Images of the Delsarte system of expression, popularized in the 1880s
and found in the volume: The Popular Entertainer and Self-Instructor in Elocution
(Chicago: Conkey, 1898) [in the collection of the Beinecke Library as part of a salesman’s sample book, including Wood’s Natural History for Children]

  

  

  

  

  

Sweetness

More printing examples from Die Deutsche Werbegraphik (Berlin : Verlag Francken & Lang, 1927)

 

The Great Mirror of Folly

An image of John Law as Don Quixote, from the volume:
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, Amsterdam, 1720,
the focus of a conference to be held at Yale University,
April 17-19, 2008: http://icf.som.yale.edu/GREAT_MIRROR/