Famous Last Words by Hot Tomato Press
“’Famous Last Words’ consisting of quotes uttered by famous and celebrated individuals from their deathbeds, across the globe and across time. Some of the quotes are sobering, while others are humorous. The book concludes by documenting the last words spoken by Mark Stevens Spitzer (educator and poet) to his sister (proprietor of Hot Tomato Press) before his passing.
“Quotes by the following luminaries include Phineas T. Barnum, Ludwig van Beethoven, Dominque Bouhours, Jean-Baptiste-Camille-Carot, Narushima Chuhachiro, Emily Dickinson, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Elizabeth I, Charles Frohman, Stephen Hawking, Katsushika Hokusai, Martin Luther King Jr., Isapo-Muxika (aka Crowfoot), Leonard Nimoy, Anna Pavlova, Pliny the Elder, Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace, Mark Stevens Spitzer, Comtesse di Vercellis, Leonardo da Vinci, and Oscar Wilde.” - Hot Tomato Press
What is life?
It is a flash of firefly
In the night.
It is a breath of a
buffalo in the wintertime.
It is as the little shadow that
runs across the grass
and loses itself in
the sunset
-Isapo-Muxika / Crowfoot
Processes, Dimensions, and Edition Information
By Erica Spitzer Rasmussen
[Saint Paul, Minnesota]: Hot Tomato Press, 2024. Edition of 20.2.5” x 10” x 1.25” closed, in-the-round 4.75” x 10” x 4.75”; 27 folio. Typewritten. Mixed media. Materials: cotton handmade paper, gelatin, acrylic ink, Rit dye, Aqua Bronze metallic powder, Japanese momigami cover paper, PVA, waxed linen thread, book board, and Mark’s oncology report. Coptic & drum binding.