Brooding Heron ~ Washington

 
   

If You Were Here I Would Have Hands
New poems by Gary Holthaus. Original cover and title page art by Julie Loyd. Poet/essayist Holthaus "brings a new restraint and old tenderness to these twenty new love poems." Handsomely printed from Lutetia and Perpetua Titling. Of the 300 copies in the edition, 26 are printed on Rives Lightweight, lettered A-Z, signed by the poet, printer, binder, and artist, and handbound into cloth and printed paper over boards. The remaining copies were printed on Mohawk Superfine and handbound into full cloth over boards or sewn into paper wrappers. (6.5 x 9.5 inches; 32 pp.)
Deluxe: $60

The Dead Have a Way of Returning
Poems by Ted Genoways. Letterpress from handset Caslon and Deepdene in three editions. The Deluxe of 26 signed and lettered copies, is printed on Rives Lightweight and handbound in boards covered with Italian cloth and a special run of pastepaper made for this edition; the Trade Cloth edition is printed on Mohawk Superfine and handbound into Italian cloth over boards. (9 x 6.25 inches; 36 pp.) Edition of 300.
Deluxe $40 Trade Cloth $25

A Summer With Tu Fu
A sequence of twenty-four poems by Hayden Carruth. Printed letterpress from handset Caslon type. Printed on Mohawk Letterpress. All copies are handbound in full cloth over boards with a paper label.
$45

Where the Yellow Field Widened: Elegies for a Lost Child
By Lynn Martin. A sequence of poems expressing grief at the loss of a child to miscarriage. "A lyric path through pain to understanding, and a restoration to harmony." An edition of 300 of which 26 are printed on Rives Lightweight, handbound into Japanese cloth and Moriki paper over boards, and signed by author, artist, printer, and binder. Three illustrations by Thomas Zalewski. Deluxe Edition.
$80

The Music of Ideas
New Poems by James Laughlin. Printed letterpress and handbound. An edition of 300 of which 26 are printed on Rives Lightweight, lettered AÐZ, and signed by author, printer, and binder. The cloth binding has a decorative underlay-a lyre-which adds elegance to the book.
Deluxe Edition. $200

 

 

 

   
  
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