Price: £395
Subject: Private Press
Published Date: 2017
Stock Number: 60287
(Your basket is currently empty)Poems.
Description: FIRST EDITION, 28/110 COPIES signed by the poet, printed on Twinrocker handmade paper, varying ground of sprayed acrylic to create a sand effect in brown with specks of yellow at foot of pages throughout, title-page printed in terracotta, pp. [27], 8vo, original Nancy Loeber binding of handmade brown paper wrappers, printed label to backstrip, edges untrimmed, prospectus laid in, newPublication Details: New York: Russell Maret, 2017
Notes: The volume title is printed in a metal version of Maret's Baker typeface, developed with Ed Rayher of Swamp Press - with the text in Adrian Frutiger's Meridian. The visual component is understated but very effective.Some of the poems relate to the author's career as a journalist, including a sequence of 'Libyan Proverbs', poems addressing both the African migrants landing on Lampedusa in 2013 and the island itself, and, in 'Geographic II', her own country to which she turns, 'uneasy and unreconciled'....more
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