Hannington, hooks, hoodoo, &c.

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• WHAT: H

• WHEN: Pre-1900

• WHO: The Un-Gyve Limited Group

• WHERE: Boston

HAIKU Sixty-three original poems by Harry Thomas from Un-Gyve Press in 2020 — Harry Thomas is the translator of Joseph Brodsky’s masterpiece, “Gorbunov and Gorchakov” (To Urania, Penguin, 1987). He is the editor of Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Penguin, 1993), Montale in English (Penguin, 2002) and Poems about Trees (Knopf, 2019). His poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in dozens of magazines. He is former Editor-in-Chief of Handsel Books, an imprint of Other Press as well as an affiliate of W. W. Norton. Also from Harry Thomas and Un-Gyve Press: Some Complicity: Poems & Translations (2013) and The Truth of Two Selected Translations (2017). HAIKU is also published in a limited, signed edition with a number of the poems translated into Japanese by TAMURA Nanae.

HANNINGTON: Hannington Drygoods evolved of the Hannington clothing line, expanding upon its reputation under Henry Nemrow, Inc. as one of the first trusted and widely successful editorial catalogue companies.

HELIOGRAVURE: An intaglio print produced by gravure. See photogravure.

HELLBOX: A receptacle into which worn or damaged cast metal typesetter sorts are thrown to be melted down and recast. Before the advent of hot-metal typesetting machines the typesetter's aprentice, the printer's devil, had the responsibility of sorting through the sorts from the hellbox and returning them to the typecase.    

HEMANS: Felicia Hemans, Residence at Rhyllon. Views of the Haunts and Homes of the British Poets, Oct. 19 1850.

HEMINGWAY: American writer Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.  A first edition, 1952 Charles Scribner's Sons New York (marked A), of The Old Man and the Sea from Daisy Nemrow's library, are among the Un-Gyve Archives and always a reminder of the hook, line and sinker.

HOOKS: Hooks, jabs and barlines, blues and boxscores, behind Un-Gyve philanthropy + miscellaneous pursuits.

HUNT: Leigh Hunt, Birthplace at Southgate. Views of the Haunts and Homes of the British Poets, Oct. 19 1850.