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Allen Ginsberg Dying (Portrait)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
$40.00
Limited edition letterpress broadside. Color of paper is white with pink and green illustration. Ships in stiff cardboard. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Written in 1997 while Ginsberg was calling close friends to announce his impending death, this broadside is a historical documentation of the relationship between two of the most important members of the Beat generation.
Shivastan Publishing, 2009.
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Pity the Nation (After Khalil Gibran)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
$40.00
First edition printed in Kathmandu, Nepal on handmade "lokta" paper in multi-colored inks in a limited edition of 250 (hand numbered). Color of paper is ivory and forest green. Ships rolled in a protective case. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Lesson (White)
Franz Wright
$25.00
Letterpress poetry broadside by Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright. Limited edition printing of 73 copies. Printed by Quercus Press and Back Pages Books of Waltham, Massachusetts in 2009. Signed by the author.
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Lesson (Blue)
Franz Wright
$35.00
Rare, letterpress-printed poetry broadside by Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright. Limited edition printing of 35 copies. Printed by Quercus Press and Back Pages Books of Waltham, Massachusetts in 2009. Signed by the author.
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Manatee/Humanity
Anne Waldman
$40.00
First edition printed poem in Kathmandu, Nepal on handmade "lokta" paper. Blue and black ink on turquoise paper with intricate illustrations. Numbered, limited edition. 17 x 23 inches. Ships rolled in a protective case.
Shivastan Publishing, 2008.
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Cecil
Rene Ricard
$40.00
First edition printed poem in Kathmandu, Nepal on handmade "lokta" paper. Red ink on turquoise paper with intricate dragon illustration. 29.5 x 20 inches. Numbered, limited edition. Ships rolled in a protective case.
Shivastan Publishing, 2008.
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Mama Crow
Stratis Havarias
$40.00
"Mama Crow" was letterpress printed in an edition of seventy-five copies to mark the occasion of the New Symposium, "Justice: One or Many?," organized by the University of Iowa International Writing Program and held on the island of Paros, Greece in May 2007. Bay Area artist Ann Miller created the beautiful Greek calligraphy. The paper is Rives BFK and the type is Rialto. The ouroboros is printed in light gray; poem title appears in brown. 8.5 x 14 inches. Signed by the author.
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The Deer Braids the Turtle ...
Tomaz Salamun
$40.00
With artwork by John Dilg
Translation by Christopher Merrill and the author. The image is based on the painting "Wilderness" by John Dilg.
One hundred twenty-five copies of this poem were printed by Shari DeGraw, Dina Hardy, and Dan Rosenberg to celebrate the author's reading at the University of Iowa. Printed from Joanna and Romanee Open Titling. 9 x 11 inches. Signed by author and artist.
Empyrean Press 2006
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Allen Ginsberg Dying
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
$40.00
First edition printed in Kathmandu, Nepal on handmade "lokta" paper in black and red inks in a limited edition of 333 (hand numbered). Color of paper is orange, ivory, gold or green. Ships rolled in a protective case.
Written in 1997 while Ginsberg was calling close friends to announce his impending death, this broadside is a historical documentation of the relationship between two of the most important members of the Beat generation.
Shivastan Publishing, 2005
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Time and Materials
Robert Hass
$35.00
A limited edition broadside from celebrated poet, Robert Hass. Letterpress printed in black and pale green ink. Handpainted in orange and pink watercolor. Signed by Robert Hass.
Littoral Press, 2009.
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In The Open Field
Stephen Dunn
$35.00
An original broadside by Stephen Dunn. Dunn won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for Different Hours, and is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey. "In the Open Field" was published in The Insistence of Beauty by Norton in 2004. On the collection, The Literary Review remarks, "Dunn's poems reveal a mind alive within its own inner-circlings, the transforming power of loss, the fictions that lead to the core of our truths, the possibility and reality of loving another again."
Limited edition of 176. The dimensions are 7" x 13". Using an antique letterpress, it was printed from copper dies and a linoleum block onto Ingres printmaking papers. Each broadside varies slightly. Each is signed and numbered by Dunn. Printed by Lettre Sauvage in March 2007.
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Each Sound
Dorianne Laux
$25.00
Printed by hand from handset lead type on a platen press. 11.25 x 7.5 inches, midnight purple and pale yellow ink on Somerset Velvet Antique paper. Signed.
Littoral Press
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Sappho
Translations by Lisa Rappoport
$100.00
Sappho is printed on white Arches cover paper in an edition of 22, each signed by the printer/ translator and the artist. Three fragments of her poetry, three watercolor images by Portland artist Andrew Larkin, three shades of coppery ink. Handset Centaur & Arrighi metal type. 16"x12". Signed.
Littoral Press, 2005
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Ponds, in Love
C.D. Wright
$30.00
Charcoal grey and turquoise ink on grey BFK Rives or Magnani Pescia; the poem is set in Cochin, with Goudy Open for the titling. 9.5x12.5 inches. Edition of 70. Signed by author.
Littoral Press, 2006
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Rushing through the Night
Dean Young
$30.00
The pages were individually painted with a delicate watercolor wash by the printer and Claribel Cone, after being printed letterpress.
The text font is Garamond, with Kaufman Script titling, in black and blood-red inks on Arches cover or BFK Rives. 11.75 x 9 inches. Edition of 95. Signed by author.
Littoral Press, 2006
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An Excess of Fireflies
Lisa Rappoport
$20.00
The font is handset Centaur, with Garamond italic titling. The lightning bolt was dusted with bronzing powder, an oldtime printer's technique in which the powder is applied to the wet ink. The paper is Arches Cover. Edition of 60. Signed.
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I Speak of the Jazz Poets
Jack Crimmins
$20.00
A painterly element was brought into the design by printing the title (set in wood type) and the oak leaves in multicolor– the ink color shades from deep blue through green to acid yellow. The highly textured paper is from the St. Armand mill in Montreal. The text of the poem is handset Italian Oldstyle lead type.
Edition of 200, to celebrate the publication of the author's first book. Signed.
Littoral Press, 2005
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