Writing Gathering Field

The front cover of Zeroes Were Hollow by David Larsen, published by Kenning Editions in 2022. Against a solid grey background, the book's title appears in bold block letters with a stylized triangle of smoke above and below. The author's name appears lower down, in smaller white block letters.

A horizontal band of pseudo-Arabic writing is painted in gold leaf upon a fabric woven from blue, tan, and ivory threads.

Hands at Work:
A Study of Banausic Crafts
in Early Arabic Poetry

The front cover of Names of the Lion by Ibn Khalawayh, edited and translated by David Larsen, and published by Wave Books in 2017. There is no image on this book's cover, only text.

Three stylized lilies appear against a yellow background on this Persian tile of the seventeenth century.

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June 16, 2019

In memoriam Kevin Killian

Portrait of Kevin Killian, 2002

Linoleum block print, hand-tinted (2002), 8" x 10"
(Reprinted 2006)

tr. by David Larsen at 3:22 PM

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Bonnie Raitt, "Too Long at the Fair" (BBC, 1976)

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A crude drawing on a wedge-shaped shard of pottery shows a man falling from the top of a date palm tree.

Ostracon from Deir el-Bahri (Egypt),
7th century CE. Coptic Museum 4588