snowline snowline Donato Mancini eth press · twenty fift een toronto · bu ff alo · boston · cincinnati SNOWLINE © 2015 Donato Mancini Th is work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4 0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/ 4 0 / or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900 , Mountain View, California, 94041 , USA. First edition published in 2015 by eth press an imprint of punctum books, Brooklyn, New York ethpress.com | punctumbooks.com eth press is a parascholarly poetry press interested in publishing innovative poetry that is inspired by, adapted from, or otherwise inhabited by medieval texts. eth press is an imprint of punctum books, an open-access and print-on-demand independent publisher dedicated to radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry and writing across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. ISBN- 10 : 0692374523 ISBN- 13 : 978 - 0692374528 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. Cover and interior art by Donato Mancini. Cover and book design by Chris Piuma. Forty days of snow are registered in the Paris archives of 1435 , the trees died and the birds. . . —Henry De Vere Stacpoole Mais où sont les neiges d’antan? ( 1461 ) But where is the last yeares snow? ( 1653 ) Tell me, if ye know ; What is come of last year’s snow ? ( 1835 ) Where is fl ed the south wind’s snow? ( 1835 ) But where are the snows of yester-year? ( 1869 ) But what has become of last year’s snow? ( 1878 ) Nay, but where is the last year’s snow? ( 1880 ) Where are the snows of a-year-agone? ( 1883 ) Where are the snows of long ago? ( 1887 ) But where be the last year’s Snows ? ( 1893 ) But where are the snows that were white last year? ( 1896 ) But what is become of last year’s snow? ( 1899 ) Where are the Snows of Yesterday? ( 1902 ) But where are the winter’s snows? ( 1905 ) But where, ah where be last year’s snows? ( 1924 )