Greetings from the special collection archives. NMSU has a store of rare books of poetry
acquired through the Gotham purchase and today marked my first chance to feel
out the trove. On the fourth floor of Branson
Library there’s a small room set aside for viewing the books; you can look, you
can touch, but you can’t take them with you.
None of the books can be removed from the building, at least not by your
humble blogger. No flash
photography; in fact, no photography at
all—otherwise, those copyright laws can get thorny. So armed with pen & pad, excuse me (no
pens allowed), pencil and pad, I began poring over some of the rare editions
for which I’ll be posting short descriptions throughout the week. So at long last, tomorrow this bookish blog
sets out in earnest. I’ll begin with several
autographed copies residing in the Gotham collection. First, a familiar face: on the morrow, it’s
Allen Ginsberg’s Airplane Dreams:
Compositions from Journals (1968).
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