Picked up a few more items signed by Ray Bradbury:
I now have three of the Bradbury Christmas broadsheets (which he sent to friends as Christmas gifts/cards), all signed.
Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Library Additions: Three Signed Ray Bradbury Items
Tuesday, March 15th, 2016Library Additions: Three Clark Ashton Smith Items
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013I managed to pick up three relatively uncommon Clark Ashton Smith items from Heritage Auction’s weekly book auction:
I’d long heard that Roy A. Squires’ small press chapbooks were very well made, and I finally was able to snag a couple of them at a reasonable price.
I bought the Cockcroft because, well, I’m slightly fanatical about collecting bibliographic material, but also because I was hoping it might have some things not in Emperor of Dreams, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. I really would like a better Smith bibliography, as Emperor of Dreams is perhaps the most confusingly organized bibliography I’ve ever seen.
Unlike a complete H. P. Lovecraft collection, a complete Clark Ashton Smith collection is probably within my means, but it’s a pretty long-term goal…
Haiku on Watching a Golden Retriever Chase a Laser Pointer Dot
Monday, August 8th, 2011Generations of
Breeding still could not teach you
Optic principles
Happy Ash Wednesday
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010For those of you who observe same.
In celebration, here’s a link to T. S. Eliot’s poem of the same name. There’s a great stillness in that poem,
I actually like it better than “The Waste Land” (which requires a level of polyglot competence in ancient Latin and Greek (which I doubt I shall ever attain) to fully enjoy), though perhaps not as much as “The Hollow Men” or “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”.