 XXIV Short Love Poems By Bruce Whiteman Sherman Oaks, California: Ninja Press, 2002. Edition of 135. 5" x 5", 38 pages. The book was designed, printed and bound by Campbell. This is a collection of poems written on the occasion of the poet's 25th wedding anniversary and offered as a gift to his wife. Printed letterpress in four colors, the text paper is Japanese hangashi, the poems are augmented by three cyanotypes, a 19th century photographic process which are sensitized by hand and printed on Velke Losiny paper by the photographer Carolee Campbell. The accordion style binding uses a luminous golden past paper, hand painted by Claire Maziarczyk. Together these elements create the impression of a silken coverlet under which the poem lies.
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