9.5x15 cm, 20 pages, 250gsm green Strata cover,  sewn with green twist.  Cover illustration shows a detail from Adam and Eve  by Lucas Cranach.  ISBN 1 903090 14 8  Ordering Information See below for extract.  Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop run Burning Deck, which they founded in 1961.

from Faint Optimism:
 

"There are, it may be, so
many kinds of voices in the
world, and none of them is
without signification."

                 I Cor. 14:10

imaginary alphabets
 

amorous a-
morphous
 

modulation
a menace
 

neglected sources of admiratio
 

apostrophe
 

the alphabet and
human figures
 

obelisk
 

and everything
contingent
 

Anima Valley
 

statue or different face
 

distortion dis-
proportion
 

Peccadillo
Mountains
 

decline of the soul
 

man pats a hat (phan-
tasmata)
 

picture to portrait
 

ants pat
a ham
 

lost dwelling places, lost
love
 

these wretched bodies
 

the phonological loop
 

disclosure
sheer