Folio. (13)ff, comprising title sheet, colophon, eight original etchings, and three poems by Simic: "Mirrors at 4 A.M.," "A Book Full of Pictures," and "Late Train." The etching and poems are divided into three printed folders. Simic is one of the most lauded poets of the latter half of the 20th century and well into the 21st, holding positions as the poetry editor of The Paris Review, a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and 15th United States Poet Laureate. This small selection of poems reflects aptly reflects his direct word choice, his feel for meter and rhythm, and his attention to small but defining, often irrevocable moments in the common human experience. There is throughout a feeling of something slipping away, a personal encapsulation of a larger cultural phenomenon in modernity's turn away from intimacy and toward the collective. Brown's accompanying images are suitably atmospheric, composed of a geometry in which the pieces do not quite fit together. Printed by Michael and Katherine Russem of the Kat Ran Press. Sheets held in solander box covered in blue silk. One tip of box glancingly bumped, else fine.