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Hopewell, NJ, Pied Oxen Printers, 2014, Japanese cloth-covered boards with paste-paper labels.

This number 41 of 60 signed & numbered copies, as new condition.

Large 4to, 8 5/8 inches x 10 5/8 inches, 22 leaves, pp. [11] verse printed recto only, Japanese book cloth-covered boards, letterpress printed paste-paper cover and spine labels. 

First edition of these 10 prose poems. Design, artwork, hand-setting of types, letterpress printing and binding are by David Sellers. The hand-set type is Monotype Garamont 248, printed on a Vandercook Universal I press. The paper is Zerkall Book. The artwork, letterpress-printed from type-high magnesium photo-engravings, was created by the printer from a detail of an original Edo period Zen Buddhist hanging scroll: a negative mirror image in red for the title page, the original sumi-e ink design in black following the title poem, and an overlapping image at the center of the book. 60 copies signed by the poet and printer, roman numeral I-X reserved for the poet and the printer and copies numbered 1-50 are for sale.

This is copy #41.

The poet on his prose poems: They seem to be using a different part of my aesthetic consciousness. My line poetry is very determined by the music of the language, and this came from a different place. It represented giving up some of the constraints of poetry and allowing other things to happen: some more playful things, some ore intellectually analytic, some more directly narrative, some more sociological. (From a 2016 interview with Carole Burns for the Washington Post.)

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