Case 4.6

Sussdorf, Agnes. Wings Over Whiteface: Victory Verse. NY: Paebar Company, 1944.

SPEC PS3537.U84 W56 1944.

Cornwell, George. Adirondack Summer: Observations in Poetic and Prose Form. 1st ed. New York: Vantage Press, 1964.

SPEC PS595.A2C6 1964 c.2.

These two pieces provide visual examples of books made during the Adirondack literature boom in the twenty years after World War II. The Poem “Mt. Whiteface” is an especially nice combination of text and art. The pen and ink drawing to the right of the poem is quite interesting, with its use of different stroke directions creating a variety of visual textures. The poem itself is another example of self-reflection when “in touch” with the wilderness of the Adirondacks, this time in sonnet form (with fourteen lines in iambic pentameter and a “turn” signaled by the end rhyming couplet).