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| Title By Year | 1997 (?). IMMORTAL |
| First Line | You who assume |
| Creators | Outram, Richard Daley, 1930-2005
Howard, Barbara, 1926-2002
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| Publisher | [Gauntlet Press] |
| Place of Publication | [Toronto] |
| Date | [1997?] |
| Description | One sheet of white cotton paper, 22 x 28 cm. Title of poem is printed in upper case Lithos, in aquamarine. Immediately above is an irregularly formed annulet with the circle incomplete at the base, resembling an ouroboros, in red. Below the title is a quotation from Montaigne, in violet. Poem, in four stanzas, is italicized, printed in black. The first two stanzas are separated from the last two by an annulet enclosing the outline of a square, in red. Beneath the poem is: 'RICHARD OUTRAM', Lithos, in aquamarine; below this is a scroll/wave ornament (from the font 'Beautiful Ornaments Three'), in red. |
| Size of Original | 1 sheet ; 22 x 28 cm. |
| Local Call Number | PS 8579 U92 I34 1997 RARE |
| Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Broadside |
| Format | Image/jpeg |
| Identifier | GP-0074 |
| Collection | Gauntlet Press of Richard Outram and Barbara Howard |
| Repository | Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries |
| Language | Eng |
| Source | Print original in the Rare Books Collection, Memorial University of Newfoundland Libraries. |
| Transcript | But you do not die because you are sick, you die because you are alive. Montaigne You who assume in our bright blinding all forever-tendered, ever-mortal guise, in whomsoever's outraged gaze endures the lace flame-adders' always eyes…You who resume to our spun daystar some late, rare, bewildered god's surmise, where self consumed, our shrunken sun become most massy fireclove, kindles, dies… |
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