Paisley Rekdal
@PaisleyRekdal
@AmericanWestCtr director, poetry editor @highcountrynews, @PENamerica UT Chapter leader, author of WEST, APPROPRIATE. Runs https://t.co/U5e9hMSqIE.
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Congrats GuggenheimFoundation! Getting a Gugg changed my life. Reading this list, it's stunning who is JUST NOW getting one (Sianne Ngai? Tracy K. Smith? David Mura?), which should give everyone heart. Even famous folks took a little extra time. Courage! gf.org/announcements/
This Buttercup looks so much like a pressed flower found in a book, but is actually an example of ‘nature printing’ from original plant specimens. From Cambridge University Library’s wonderful copy of Johann Hieronymus Kniphof’s ‘Botanica in originali seu herbarium vivum’ (1757-64). S370.a.75.1-4 💚
Total Eclipse of the Sun! We may not be able to see the show today in the UK, but we can enjoy this amazing 13th-century diagram of an eclipse from a Latin copy of De motibus planetarum by Alfraganus, now Bodleian Libraries MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘