November 19, 2007
Judge a Book’s Cover
Vote for the best book cover of 2007 at The Book Design Review
I, of course, voted for Zbigniew Herbert’s Collected Poems 1956 – 1998, partly because I was just happy to see it there (my favorite book of the year) and partly because it is a great cover, evoking a 50s – 60’s coolness that also comes out in stories about Herbert.
Alas, it’s not among the top vote getters, but I think the two top ones deserve it because the covers seem to cleverly tell their own story about what’s in the book.
[via Bookdwarf]
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I wrote a blog on bedside books where I mentioned that Herbert’s Collected poems were the first book in years that I bought solely for the cover. The last was The Wind-Up Chronicle and like that book, the content inside was even better.
– Marlon James (11/27 04:55 PM)
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Such a long time since I have read any Muldoon. I will look for that WZ poem. Thanks.
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