a bit like a music of music boxes; stemlets and flowerets

images from the making of the pré by francis ponge
university of missouri press - 1979
translated by lee fahnestock

image 1 - from book jacket
from three prints of grasses - buc'hoz
image 2 & 3 - a bit like a music of music boxes; stemlets and flowerets - harpsichord cadenza - johann sebastian bach
image 4 - 13 july evening (night of 13 to 14) 3
image 5 - first typing, 19 january 1961
image 6 - like the neck of the beauty with the necklace - "the hunt of the unicorn"

the making of the pré may best be described as a poetic manuscript in which francis ponge develops his poem le pré (the meadow).
- from the jacket

(discovered in the library of the printer and book designer jack stauffacher)
((more to come as i spend more time with this book))