Edizioni Canopo ~ Italy/California
(Stephanie Peek)

Endless Life
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1999. Edition of 35.

10 x 14" folio in 11 x 15 x 2" box. Letterpress from handset Atheneum printed by Franco Palagini, San Miniato, Italy, with drypoints printed by Robert Stevenson at University of California, Berkeley, all on Magnani paper. Twelve paired folios with Magnani case wrapper. Portfolio boxes, handmade in Italy, covered in dark green Fabriano. In English with Italian translations by Lucia Cucciarelli.

Endless worlds without ends of days

in autumn capitals

their avenues of leaves ablaze

The fourth of a series of livres d'artistes published by Edizioni Canopo with selected texts by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Illustrated with eleven drypoints and aquatints by Stephanie Peek.

Subdued and powerful. This Is Ferlinghetti the lyricist, not the bad boy. And Peek's subtle and elegant images match the mood.
$1800

Back Roads to Far Places After Basho
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2002. Edition of 10.

13 x 91" extended. The etchings are mounted on a paper that is made from 100% kozo that was dyed with the inner bark of the silk tree before the process of forming the sheets. The rolled scroll is stored in an elegant paulownia wood box. Signed on the lid by the poet.

A Japanese hand scroll with nine poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, accompanied by ten spit bite etchings by San Francisco artist Stephanie Peek. The poems, inspired by Haiku poet Massou Basho, were set and letterpress printed by Alan Hillesheim at Digger Pine Press in Berkeley. The etchings were printed by Paul Mullowney at Tokugenji Zen temple in Nara, Japan. The paper is hand dyed Yoshino Kizuki and the entire piece is mounted exquisitely with gold and silk brocade borders by master craftsman Shasaku Yoshimura in Ouda, Japan. Peek designed the scroll and worked closely with Moshimura to choose the silks used on the borders and the backing. It resembles a traditional Japanese format except that it reads from left to right.
(SOLD)