Northampton, MA: Double Elephant Press, 2011. Folio. (16)ff. One of 70 copies, signed by the poet, Anthony Hecht, and the artist, Michael Kuch. For each of Hecht's ten poems, Kuch has contributed two intaglios, and has arranged the printing such that the trifold sheets unfurl to show the poem at..... More
Northampton, MA: Double Elephant Press. Triptych broadside, presented as three sheets plus slip for title. All sheets signed by Kuch. Three woodcuts encourage the viewer toward active citizenship, twisting the three R's of learning into the three R's of civic engagement: Rise Up, Resist, and Reject. Sheets held by magnets..... More
Northampton, MA: Double Elephant Press, 1998. Octavo. Unpaginated accordionfold, double-sided. One of forty-four copies. Signed by Kuch. Two poems, arranged into couplets below each series of images, considers the struggles of following a spiritual path. The seriousness of Kuch's verses is put into question by the jests of his imagery..... More
Northampton, MA: Double Elephant Press, 2014. Octavo. Unpaginated. One of forty copies. Signed by Kuch at the colophon. Modeled after an illuminated manuscript, Kuch's delightfully morbid book presents a series of thirteen mezzotints of invented martyrs bordered by marginalia of illuminated relief-etchings. In Kuch's words, the icons "are martyred by..... More
Northampton, MA: Double Elephant Press, 2016. Square 24mo. (24)pp. One of 365 copies. Each page has a relief etching (recto and verso). Inspired by Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort (1538) by Hans Holbein the Younger, Kuch's own Dance of Death comes as a natural history with a...... More
Northampton, MA: Double Elephant Press, 2011. Square 24mo. Unpaginated, accordionfold. One of 60 copies. A charming alphabetical bestiary of twenty-six-plus-one (colophon) double-page spreads made from color-printed copperplates employing stencils, viscosity, and monotype techiniques. Among the collected wildlife are "lackadaisical lobsters left little to lose" and "jaunty jaguars jousting in 'jamas."..... More
