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View the 2,000,000th Volume in the Library's
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The 2,000,000th Volume
Libraries are evaluated in various ways, but we are all impressed by a statistic of millions of books The UIC Library is celebrating the milestone of its 2,000,000th volume and designated a volume as the ceremonial 2,000,000th. This volume is Freight, a work created and printed by Bertrand Goldberg, with poems by John Frederick Nims, and illustrations by Richard Florsheim.
The book's physical appearance embodies some of the defining
characteristics of the urban University of Illinois at Chicago and its Library. The hard, man-made fiberglass binding, the New Bauhaus design (including the Futura typeface), the strong and stark lithographs, the strong poems.
You can make a gift online in support of the University of Illinois at Chicago Library:
http://www.uif.uillinois.edu/Gift/
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(The poem caption on the right of the picture):
Call Motion what you will; long long ago
It set the flywheels in the heaven spinning,
The unwieldy earth and crumbling gears of snow,
The sensitive salt of blood and ocean running.
Soon man (that eye that lit and tongue that muttered
Banished from Eden's air? Changeling of apes?)
Sat clashing flint on flint and as they shattered
Picked with a grin what split in craftier shapes.
The law was move or die: move fast from tigers,
Slower from winter, into caves from both.
Oxen, we learned, would bear us; so would rivers ..
See the first inches of our human growth.
With the same hand that once struck flints in two
We fling whole mountains open and move through.
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