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“Skirt”

Skirt
Iris rise from dark soil, /
dress in a skirt of May rain, /
bloom and fall from light.
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#skirt #iris #rain #May #light #bloom #soil #haiku #poem #poetry #haiga #photo #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #Sunday #050524 #2024

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The Sexiest Hard Case Crime Book Covers (PHOTOS)

The Sexiest Hard Case Crime Book Covers (PHOTOS).The Sexiest Hard Case Crime Book Covers (PHOTOS).

Old pulp paperbacks fetch a handsome price on the antique market. It’s no wonder why; they feature artwork that incorporates everything good and pure about American culture—namely saucy dames, square-jawed men, brutal violence and raunchy sex. Even if you can’t throw down the cake for a vintage copy of Faulkner’s The Sanctuary, you can get the latest releases from Hard Case Crime, a retro fiction imprint with books you can judge by their covers. Check out some of our favorites on the following pages.

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Quiz: Can you identify these classic sci-fi books by their covers? | Books | theguardian.com

Quiz: Can you identify these classic sci-fi books by their covers? | Books | theguardian.com.

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Myth About Harvard Book Made of Human Skin Debunked

Myth About Harvard Book Made of Human Skin Debunked.

Sample:
Science: 1, Internet: 0.

For one reason or another—perhaps it was the flashy headline, or the gruesome mysterious details—a nearly decade-old story published by the Harvard Crimsonabout a collection of books at the university’s library, that are allegedly bound in human skin, crawled to the surface of the Internet this week. But unfortunately for the Internet, as the story started to regain traction officials from the school fleshed out the details of what really wraps at least some of the literature in their collection, and discovered it’s not human skin after all—it’s actually sheepskin. “Baaaaaad news for fans of anthropodermic bibliopegy (binding books in human skin): Recent analyses of a book owned by the [Harvard Law School] Library, long believed but never proven to have been bound in human skin, have conclusively established that the book was bound in sheepskin,” according to a post on the Harvard Library Law School’s blog, dated April 3.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/04/03/harvard-book-made-of-human-skin/

Suggested by: Ashlie

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20 Embarrassingly Bad Book Covers for Classic Novels – Flavorwire

20 Embarrassingly Bad Book Covers for Classic Novels – Flavorwire.

Sample of book cover. After all Henry James book is about construction, right?

Source: http://flavorwire.com/378513/20-embarrassingly-bad-book-covers-for-classic-novels/view-all/

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40 Worst Book Covers and Titles Ever | Bored Panda

40 Worst Book Covers and Titles Ever | Bored Panda.

Not sure I agree with all the selections here, but an interesting collection. Might even spark conversation if not contemplation.

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