Dr. Michael Lund and his brother Carl
donated the original poem "About
a little
girl" by William Carlos Williams to Kent
Library at Southeast Missouri State University. As part of the
celebration of such a unique acquisition,
the University Press produced a small
artbook that includes the poem, a facsimile
of the original artifact, photos, and essays by families of both William
Carlos Williams and Marian Macy Lund. The essays include an introduction
by Dr. Robert Hamblin that charts the voyage of the poem into Kent
Library's safekeeping, an essay by Michael Lund tracing the place and
importance of literature in his family, a
short explication of the poem, and afterwords by Suzy Williams Sinclaire
and Daphne Williams Fox about their
illustrious family member.
The 72-page book is perfect-bound,
Smythe-sewn adhesive, in Garamond and Garamond Pro fonts with rising
initials in Edwardian Script, on 60# acid-free paper. The cover is
Lexotone Shoecalf vinyl in the style of a
doctor's vintage black bag, with a laminated
photo of the famous poet-physician set in a
debossed frame. The gold-foil stamping retains Williams's lower-cased
version of the poem's title. The cover and inside photos of Williams, as
well as permission to print the poem, were generously given by Peggy Fox
of New Directions Publishing Corporation, agent to the heirs of William
Carlos Williams.
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