News from the Library

January 2010
Crossett Library and Jennings Music Library—Bennington College

Gee Thanks, You Really Shouldn’t Have Freeze Frame: Frosty Flicks
Despite being one of the worst holiday gifts
The Ice Storm, 1997.
imaginable, calendars make rather interesting
Based on Rick Moody’s
topics for books. From medieval harvests to book about dysfunctional
pin-up girls, these books explore the many families in New Canaan,
ways we count our days... Connecticut. Frost is in the
forecast & the psychology.
Mapping A Child’s
Time: The Calendar
Calendar
Nanook of the North,
by John
1922. Filmed in the
& Its Updike
Canadian arctic it was
History & Trina
recently selected for
by E.G. Schart
preservation in the U.S.
Richards Hyman
National Film Registry.

The Book Gil

of Days, a Nói, 1997.
Elvgren:
Miscellany Seventeen-year-old Nói
All His
of Popular dreams of escaping his
Glamorous
Antiquities in home on a remote fjord in
American
Connection Iceland with Iris, who
Pin-Ups
with the works at a gas station.
Calendar
Fargo, 1996.
The classic Coen brothers
film –snowy murder &
Need a Good Read? mayhem. As Marge says,
Have you already read the “There’s more to life than
books you packed for FWT? a little money, ya know?”
Let us know and we’ll mail you
some more. Search the catalog Into Great Silence,
and send us an email with the 2005. A quietly
titles and your address. Not mesmerizing documentary
sure what to read next? Our about an ascetic
Books to Love page will help. monastery in the French
Alps.

The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens

One must have a mind of winter
To regards the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time

To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think

Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of the leaves,

R Which is the sound of the land

o
c Full of the same wind
k
w That is blowing in the same bare place
e
l
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For the listener, who listens in the snow,
e And, nothing himself, beholds
n
t Nothing that is not there and nothing that is.
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