Scope and Contents An Epigram is a brief, clever, and usually memorable statement. Derived from the Greek: "to write on - inscribe"[1], the literary device has been employed for over two millennia. The Greek tradition of epigrams began as poems inscribed on votive offerings at sanctuaries "” including statues of athletes "” and on funerary monuments, for example "Go tell it to the Spartans, passer-by"¦". These original epigrams did the same job as a short prose text might have done, but in verse. Epigram became a literary genre in the Hellenistic period, probably developing out of scholarly collections of inscriptional epigrams. Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between 'epigram' and 'elegy' is sometimes indistinct (they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise. Many of the...

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The poem is by Bernstein and the illustrations and by Susan Bee. The covers were designed by Susan Bee and Philip Gallo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Photographic portraits of 101 contemporary American poets are matched with their personal, handwritten signed prose, poetic statements, and/or drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This magazine is a contemporary Russian photography publication. This issue features a photograph of Rimma Gerlovin on the cover and an interview of the Gerlovins. They indicate that their intricate photographs are made with multiple exposures in a 4" x 5" view camera rather than manipulations using Photoshop. The photographs are made without assistants and a mood is achieved by playing Baroque music, mostly by J.S. Bach, as they work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.