The Decade in Book Covers | The Casual Optimist
WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Welcome to the New American Digest: 2003-2020
Gerard Van der Leun
The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God’s last Put out the light was spoken.
— Robert Frost
Hopper in Paris
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I bought this book based primarily on it’s cover.
Still have it.
https://www.amazon.com/Andy-Goldsworthy-Collaboration-Nature/dp/0810933519
Sooooo cool to see the book from Stuart Dybek! He was my English professor for creative writing at Western Michigan University back in the late 1970s. Awesome human being, great teacher, and a wonderful writer.
I mush admit I have bought many a book judging by it’s title.
For example who could have resisted, back in 1984, buying The Moon’s Fire Eating Daughter, by John Myers Myers?
I had that Goldsworthy book too. Fantastic.
Sigh.
Apostrophes, chillun.