[Libri] reminder: book event Thursday

[Prof. James Wald (der Geist, der stets verneint)]

Events at Amherst Books:

Thursday, May 11th at 4:00 P.M.The Robert Frost Library at Amherst  
College will host a party to celebrate the publication of a new book  
by Michael Kasper, librarian, author of numerous articles,  
translations, & artists‘ books, including, "Iconoclasm in Pontus",  
"Shapes & Spacing of the Letters",  "Billy! Turn Down That TV!", "All  
Cotton Briefs", "Plans for the Night", "Verbo-Visuals", & "Chinese  
English Sentence Cards".  Kasper has newly rendered into English  
(with help from Bhamati Viswanathan) "Saint Ghetto of the Loans", by  
Gabriel Pomerand.  The book is a bilingual reissue by Ugly Duckling  
Presse (Brooklyn) of a legendary but little seen masterpiece of  
French book art from 1950.  A prose poem about postwar Left Bank  
Paris is accompanied by 47 striking full-page rebus illustrations.

For more information, please visit http://www.amherstbooks.com/Events