Poetry Broadsides
 Handmade letterpress broadsides, ready for framing. Shipped in protective packaging.


  
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.



 
  
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.



 
  
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.



 
  
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



 
  
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.

Temporarily unavailable


 
  
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



 
  
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



 
  
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.



 
  
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