Item
Aesop Cop, Volume One
- Title
- en_US Aesop Cop, Volume One
- Description
- en_US Franklin Crawford, Versifier
- Creator
- en_US No Author See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Stuhmiller, Rigel
- en_US Handy, C. Penbroke (Essayist)
- Date
- 2016-01-22T21:18:11Z
- en_US 2014-12
- en_US 2011
- Date Available
- 2016-01-22T21:18:11Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2011
- Abstract
- en_US The back cover of this 40-page booklet speaks of an Aesop-inspired morality poem about notable crimes. Is that forward by Handy a deliberate play on the standard foreword? In it Handy, editor of tinytowntimes.com, a blog in Crawford's home town of Ithaca, NY, writes that Crawford chose to versify petty crimes of nominal import then added a quirky, often nonsensical, moral. For Handy it is the art of Stuhmiller that raises this book to art. Each of eighteen stories follows the same two-page format. On the left-hand page is a title and a police report. On the right-hand page is verse and moral set within a full-page illustration. These illustrations remind me of the chromolithographs of Walter Crane. The second story, Grand Farcery, is a good example. Its last lines are O! What a farce when we/Land on our arse and we/Get popped for grand larceny. The moral is Since all the world's a stage, always have an exit strategy. Among the more curious police reports is that in Play It Straight. The report here is of a subject walking strangely and carrying a cello case. Another caller reports finding a fork in her shower. My prize overall goes to The Russian Hairdresser's Boy Toy. All in all, this booklet represents one of the weirdest uses of Aesop's name that I have known.
- Identifier
- en_US 10437 (Access ID)
- Publisher
- en_US Tomorrow John Press
- en_US Berkeley, CA
- Subject
- en_US PN982.C73 2011 See all items with this value
- en_US Crawford See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection