Amazon.com description: Product Description: Poetry. The practice of composing maxims, or aphorisms, has a long tradition, from Ecclesiastes to Erasmus and Pascal, and now Kostelanetz contributes his small share to such collected wisdoms. Sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes dead serious, Kostelanetz's sayings will delight any reader willing to travel with him into a journey of contemporary knowledge. Limited to 150 copies letterpress printed from handset Goudy Modern metal types onto 80 lb. Neenah's recycled Environment Felt text, various colored endsheets, sewn by hand, and bound with a paper cover.