Faith Acker

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Lover of Libraries, Latin, & Early Modern Poetry. Author, First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Routledge, 2020); currently researching epitaphs on early modern servants & tradesmen.

Morning sun sends strips of light across a wooden surface in the Beinecke Library reading room, a circular marble sculpture just visible out the window, but still in shade. Blue sky with glowing clouds trims the top of the photo.

Pale blue sky with streaks of pink surrounding the Beinecke Library building on a winter afternoon. Tungsten lights already glow beneath the building.

Two cats curled up, asleep, on a towel in a window: a tabby on the left, tail touching nose, and a black one (really just a blob) on the right in the same position.

Black cat sitting on a paper bag in front of a brick wall, backlit with sunshine so that her whole front is gleaming.

Five epigrams from Wits Recreations copied into Folger manuscript V.a.339.

Black cat with a tuft of white on his chin sits in a large bookcase.