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“And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind How time has ticked a heaven round the stars.”
--Dylan Thomas
Forces and Fossils marries poetry from Dylan Thomas with 19th century taxonomical illustrations from Ernst Haeckel through imaginative screenprints from artist Fred Hagstrom. This drum leaf bound artists’ book was created in 2011 by Hagstrom and Strong Silent Type Press in Northfield Minnesota in a run of 20; our library copy is number 16. Dylan Thomas’s “The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower” was published in The Poems of Dylan Thomas in 1939. Ernst Haeckel’s 1862 Radiolaria contributed to the identification of these small sea creatures whose remains of intricate mineral skeletons are found on the ocean floor and as micro-fossils. The poem, illustrations, and book can be framed as both force and fossil as we are left to marvel at the imprints of the past.
--Laura
x-Collection FOLIO N7433.4 .H25 F67 2011