Flowers & Leaves
Flowers and Leaves. Poema vel Sonata; Carmina Autumni Primaeque Veris Transformationum. Highlands, NC: The Nantahala Foundation, Jonathan Williams, Publisher, 1966. Jargon 46.
"The decorations for this volume are all quotations except for the motorcyclist on the title page and the centaur that appears in Part IV [GD, in my copy, placed an asterisk here and made a corresponding footnote: "deleted : wasn't a good centaur. G.D."]. The flute player is a Benin bronze. The striding cow is from the Tassili frescoes in the Sahara. The two horsemen are from rock engravings in the Camonica Valley. The cut bronze on the title page of Part II is a pocket toy made by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska for T. E. Hulme. The wizard on the title page of Part III is the Trois Frères sorcerer. The drawing in III, iii is of Gaudier-Brzeska's Imp. The reindeer in III, xiv is from the Camonica Valley rock engravings. At III, xv is a bâton de commandement, Aurignacian, two phalluses and a vulva executed in reindeer horn. In the same part there are a horse-headed figure from the Tassili frescoes and a warrior from the Camonica Valley. At III, xxiv is a hunter from the Tassili frescoes. The bronze owl on the title pages of Part IV is Chou." (verso title page)
Dedication: To the memory of / CHARLES IVES / 1874 -- 1954 / Whose portrait, / Republican, Intelligent and Shy / Here Imagine [a blank space] A Photograph / Taken in 1910, / framed / in an oval / of / Lilac and wheat
Inscribed: For Charles-Alan Ralston / Guy Davenport. Lexington. 1967
Note: I have a second copy but without its dust jacket.
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